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They also demanded an end to uranium mining and processing everywhere. They demanded that the German government close down uranium enrichment in Gronau and production of nuclear fuel in Lingen.

Both factories are not included in the shutdown of nuclear power production planned for Germany and supply power stations around the world.

The conference participants intensively discussed the considerable dangers created by the mostly secret uranium transports.

They tracked them from mining in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan through Russia across the Baltic Sea through the Kiel Canal to the central uranium transportation hub in the port of Hamburg.

From there the uranium concentrate rolls by train through Lower Saxony, Bremen, North-Rhine Westphalia and the Mosel/Saar region for processing in Narbonne-Malvési and Pierrelatte in southern France.

As uranium hexafluoride it then moves back to Germany for enrichment in Gronau or not far into The Netherlands at the same kind of plant at Almelo.

The next step is the Areva fuel production in Lingen, before the final products often move again through Hamburg or also Rotterdem to all over the world.

The conference condemned as unacceptable that in many ways France, Germany, Russia and The Netherlands continue to enable a future for the nuclear industry.

The activists also demand determined action from the German state governments to stop the growing number of uranium transports which endanger countless people……………

The conference ended on 30 November with protests outside the Gronau and Lingen plants.

In Lingen a woman representing the French anti-nuclear umbrella organisation, Réseau “Sortir du nucléaire” called for immediate closure of the Areva fuel factory. Areva is a globally operating French corporation.

Areva currently has big financial problems and the Lingen operations had to be downsized some weeks ago because of serious technical problems.

The activists announced more joint protects against uranium transportation and the uranium industry as a whole.

More information in German at www.urantransport.de, www.sofa-ms.de, www.robinwood.de, www.wise-uranium.org,www.umweltfairaendern.de

Pictures of the conference at
http://www.anti-atom-aktuell.de/fotos/20141129-internationales-urantrans…    https://indymedia.org.au/2014/12/04/stop-uranium-mining-transportation-enrichment-and-nuclear-fuel-production