France

Second largest demonstration in the Wendland in almost 35 years

.ausgestrahlt – Gemeinsam gegen Atomenergie
.ausgestrahlt - Together against nuclear energy

Press release

Dannenberg, 26 November 2011

Second largest demonstration in the Wendland in almost 35 years

Railway tracks blockades continue: a night on the tracks

Jochen Stay, spokesperson for the anti nuclear power organisation .ausgestrahlt stated in an interim evaluation of the protests against the Castor shipment:

Nuclear disaster in Japan

Berlin / Munich. The consumer organisation foodwatch and the Environment Institute Munich eV have criticised the information policy of the federal government on food safety after the nuclear disaster in Japan. Federal Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner has for days talked about "enhanced control measures" and "special protection standards" - but she does not inform the public about the fact that the EU-wide limits ​​for the radioactive contamination of foodstuffs from the affected areas in Japan have been increased over the weekend.

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 297/2011 of 25 March 2011 imposing special conditions governing the import of feed and food originating in or consigned from Japan following the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power station

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 297/2011

of 25 March 2011

imposing special conditions governing the import of feed and food originating in or consigned from Japan following the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power station

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Scandalous police repression against nonviolent activists in France

From "Sortir du nucléaire" network (France):

Nuclear State, police state: scandalous repression against non-violent activists.

Following a mobilisation on an unprecedented scale, the transfer of eleven containers of highly radioactive waste from La Hague (Manche) to Gorleben (Germany) took twice as long than expected.

Nuclear-free footsteps

This summer, I was one of nine walkers to complete a gruelling 84-day, 1000+ mile International Walk towards a Nuclear-Free Future from London to Geneva, through France.

Weekend of resistance to nuclear power in Finland

A weekend of resistance to nuclear power is currently underway in Finland, the country where the world's first "European Pressurised Reactor" , or EPR, is under construction.
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