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HAMBURG taz | It's still dark when the "Atlantic Cartier" on this Sunday morning cruises up the River Elbe. Without greeting at the Welcome Point in Wedel, just before the border, turn the 293-meter-long combined roll-on roll-off container and car carrier little later into the harbor contship of O'Swald terminals. At the cruise terminal in Hamburg's HafenCity, not far away, is just the "Queen Mary 2".
To 5 35 clock makes the "Atlantic Cartier" at the quay. It is for the first time in Hamburg, since their extensive repair. The last time, in May of this year, a fire broke out on board the ship had loaded the "Cartier" then all sorts of radioactive cargo - and only a few hundred meters away thousands celebrated the opening of the Lutheran Church Council. Only just scraped past the Hanseatic city at that time of a disaster, some say.
And so it is now at 10 clock in the morning with the stealth past: On a barge coming from her larboard activists "anti-nuclear plenary" on the freighter. With magnets contship they attach contship a banner to the ship's side: "nuclear transports fire hazard" stands out "stop uranium transports" on another banner at the launch contship itself You've "branded the ship," said one of the activists later. "That's where the banner hangs, was the fire."
In the evening, about 19.30 clock, on 1 May, a parking deck of the ship in flames. Why, is still unclear. The Hamburg fire brigade was alerted only when the on-board extinguishing agent, such as a carbon dioxide system, were unable to smother the fire. Based on the loading lists presented the summoned person at that in the immediate vicinity of the fire source superimposed a highly explosive cocktail: nine tons of uranium hexafluoride (UF6), eleven tons of enriched uranium oxide and fresh fuel and ammunition contship and high explosive ethanol. Internal proclaimed the extinguisher disaster alarm. contship
A fire on board the "Atlantic Cartier" was founded on 1 Brought May at the Hamburg harbor after nearly ten hours under control: the missing carbon dioxide fire flame to die.
"With the release of UF 6 formed with the humidity immediately hydrofluoric acid produces severe burns of the respiratory tract in the vicinity of the 600 meters," said Sunday the physicist Fritz Storim by Bremer measuring point for labor and environmental protection. What the "Atlantic contship Cartier" have loaded this time, "we do not know exactly, because the transport permits are kept secret," he continues. But assume that they are "UF 6 takes from the Gronau uranium enrichment plant for the production of fuel on board."
After the incident in May of nuclear trade has not subsided, the anti-nuclear activists say. They praise that the red-green Bremen Senate the "declassification" - has decided the Bremen ports for nuclear fuel - the legal term for blocking. But that were not covered up as UF 6 precursors.
"Through the Port of Hamburg contship almost daily nuclear transports," says Storim he was "the hub of international nuclear business" has become. According to an activist thereby mixed with the knowledge of the port business, the semi-state-owned shipping company Hapag Lloyd: Their ships "Toronto Express" and "Montreal Express" Radioactive transported regularly between Canada and Europe.
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