According to the response to an inquiry by the Greens in the Senate, the shipping company, Atlantic

Wednesday, 05/01/2013, about 19 clock 30 In the port of Hamburg on O'Swald terminal came in the evening, the 276 meter long and 32 meter wide vessel conteiner "Atlantic Cartier" with atomic charge on board on fire. Erupted the fire is the car lower deck 3b with 65 cars. The result is the ship from Gothenburg. Was in sight at the time of the opening worship of the church day with about 35,000 participants at Strandkai in HafenCity instead. Dangerous cargo on board the car and container vessel were, according to a packing list including 9 tonnes of uranium hexafluoride. Contamination that could make the area in question for a long time uninhabitable. Overall, more than 20 tons of radioactive material were loaded. Furthermore, in the charge were 3.8 tons and 180 tons of ammunition, flammable ethanol. According to the Senate presumed band oven ethanol was below the charge and charges in the radioactive Bay 21, but offset in the longitudinal and transverse direction by about 10 to 15 meters. The disaster was informed early. Also, the West German Central Command in Cuxhaven was switched on and brought in expertise vessel protection of special groups (SEG-S) from Hamburg. The deletion alarmed as the Hamburg fire brigade to 20.02 clock and arrived around 20.15 clock, according to official figures had to be aborted too strong heat development due to an "inside attack" of the fire. When the line of fire use water police learned of the dangerous cargo was triggered by the crew and the fire onboard the carbon dioxide fire extinguishing system. Mix with water, such a fire can not be deleted because it is in contact with uranium hexafluoride hydrofluoric acid. The CO2 but did not bring the flames void even though the deck was completely closed conteiner by the closing of the "Side Door". Because conteiner the hatches were not close the fire is not extinguished. The fire control center then tried another 25 tons of carbon dioxide at companies and the chemical industry to order to support a "repeated flooding of the cargo hold" on the "on-board fire extinguishing system" to. The requested amount of CO2 was indeed verhanden, the technical provision and delivery, however, not feasible in the short term. Carbon dioxide is no longer held for reasons of cost at the Hamburg fire brigade. 23 Clock 08 The fire department leadership decides to Lebensgfahr of forces to bring 33 hazardous containers over a container bridge O'Swald the quay and a mobile crane aboard. They were unharmed and were taken to a "safe" storage space on land. Then the flames could be fought conteiner with water from the fire department with a large contingent of 296 men. They needed to get at the "most dangerous mission" several conteiner hours to put the flames under control. Two fire boats and fire boats, police conteiner boats repurposed to cooled the hull from the outside. But the color had already beaten on the outer skin because of the heat blisters. Even a robot fighting was in use. However, the fire was completely extinguished until 16 hours later in the afternoon the next day. 30 cars were destroyed by the fire. Uninformed public
The public conteiner the near disaster was not known until about 2.5 weeks later by the response of the SPD Senate to an inquiry by the Greens. Their spokesman Anjes Tjark speaks of a "cover-up". The Senate was forced to admit: It was "the danger conteiner existed that caused by the release of hazardous materials health hazards and environmental hazards."
According to the response to an inquiry by the Greens in the Senate, the shipping company, Atlantic Container Line (ACL) of the freighter "Atlantic Cartier" suggests more than previously known radioactive cargo to the port of Hamburg. Thus, a total of 21 transports, the ACL was radioactive material on board. In March alone, put 5 in Hamburg on the freighter conteiner ACL, including the now burnt-out "Atlantic Cartier" with mostly uranium hexafluoride.
Transportation was approved by the Federal Office for Radiation Protection. The uranium hexafluoride came from the U.S.. It should be further transported from Hamburg to Holland. Other radioactive substances from non-irradiated conteiner fuel elements were on their way to France. Hamburg is also a major hub for nuclear shipments to Eastern Europe. It is assumed that almost conteiner daily radioactive conteiner material is transported by Hamburg. On the water, with trucks on the road and on rails. Despite nuclear envelope a prohibition of such accidents would also be in the Bremen ports, although a possible closure of state-owned ports there was an amendment to the Port Authority Law was made for nuclear fuel. Because the Red-Green government of Bremen refused, conteiner as required by the Left, the ports do not nu