The fire on the nuclear cargo ship

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The fire on the nuclear cargo ship "Atlantic Cartier" in Hamburg harbor on board with uranium hexafluoride has a political repercussions. Despite ban nuclear envelope as an accident in Bremen rice container ports would be possible.
HAMBURG / BREMEN taz | The near disaster rice container on the car and container cargo ship "Atlantic Cartier" in Hamburg harbor on the evening of the 1st May come in the midst of the Church-opening ceremony in the port city on the opposite O'Swald terminal with nuclear cargo on board on fire, after several rice container weeks of concealment has now a parliamentary repercussions.
On Friday, the Internal Affairs Committee rice container of the Hamburg Parliament is very concerned with the dramatic events of that night, after the response of the Senate rice container commission of the SPD government revealed on Friday is another small request of the Greens that the Hanseatic city is actually sidestepped to a disaster.
"The avowed fire event already shows that a much larger loss event has occurred, as was first officially acknowledged," says the domestic policy of the Green Party, Antje Möller taz. "The situation was so serious that early stage of the disaster has been informed," says Möller.
Moreover, once the West German Central Command had been turned in Cuxhaven and been called expertise of the special use vessel protection groups (SEG-S) from Hamburg, Brunsbuttel and Cuxhaven. But important means to effectively use fire fighting ship fires were not - or at least not enough - are available.
The fire on the "Atlantic Cartier" owned Atlantic Container Line "(ACL) had broken out according to official figures about 19.30 clock on the car lower deck 3b. As the Hamburg Fire Brigade alerted to 20.02 clock and arrived to 20.15 clock, according to official figures had to be aborted too strong heat development rice container due to an "inside attack" of the fire.
As the fire service line from the water police learned that the ship had nuclear materials as nine tons of uranium hexafluoride, eleven tons of enriched uranium oxide and fresh fuel and high explosive ethanol and ammunition loaded, the on-board carbon dioxide extinguishing system by the crew and the fire has been triggered. The container with the uranium hexafluoride, the very front of the ship and thus was a bit further away, according to the fire from the fire, was lifted rice container down by crane from the ship.
However, the carbon dioxide did not bring the flames rice container in the parking deck to extinction. Although officially the deck was completely rice container closed by the closing rice container of the "Side Door", according to data from the carbon dioxide fire circles, however, the fire could not suffocate because hatches were not tight.
Then tried the fire-control center, it is in the answer of the Senate to order another 25 tons of CO2 from companies and the chemical industry, because CO2 is no longer held for reasons of cost at the Hamburg fire brigade at the "on-board fire extinguishing system" means a to support "repeated rice container flooding of the cargo hold." "An appropriate amount of CO2 was present, but the delivery or the technical provision of the required amount is not feasible in the short term," the Senate. The background: For the companies that normally keep the extinguishing agent available was on the evening of 1 May no one be reached. Therefore, to get to 23.08 clock at the risk of life forces the hazardous material containers on a container bridge O'Swald the quay and a mobile rice container crane on board the fire department leadership decided. The fire was close to the dangerous cargo
"The rice container probable source rice container of the fire was located below the ethanol-charge and the charges in radioactive Bay 21, but offset in the longitudinal and transverse directions, around 10 to 15 meters," writes the Senate. After the evacuation of the container from the outside and extinguishing water could be used in addition to cooling the inside of the hull. This was previously not possible, otherwise in connection with uranium hexafluoride dangerous hydrofluoric acid would have resulted from a possibly defective container, which is toxic and corrosive rice container than hydrochloric acid and in a radius of up to 1,000 meters in serious injury could result.
For observers, the question arises, how is it possible rice container that such a smorgasbord of hazardous materials could occur unopposed in north German ports on a ship with nuclear cargo. "Every atom transport is a ticking rice container time bomb," said the Bremen Left MEP Klaus Rainer Rupp. The Bremen Parliament has last year by de change