“Shipbreaking #41”, July 1 to September 30, 2015, radioactive offshore platforms are landing
Quarterly bulletin of information and analysis on ship demolition
# 41, from July 1 to September 30, 2015 pdf 60 pages. 7 Mo
– Radioactivity in India, in Bangladesh and in Turkey
– Ship demolition : the plunge
– The dismantling of the floating nuclear power plant Sturgis underway in Texas (p 8)
– The CIA spy boat Hughes GlomarExplorer is awaiting demolition (p 18)
– The detailed and highlighted world panorama on the demolition of naval vessel and merchant cargo ships
Das Bato
Subject: Radioactive waste – Cherbourg => Australia. 25,000 km to Port Kembla, near Sydney.
Panorama of the performances of BBC Shanghai, German shipowner, German classification society (Germanischer Lloyd).
« The company and the ship meet all current national and international regulations concerning nuclear safety » according to AREVA.
The BBC Shanghai is hunt down throughout the world. Cherbourg let her go with a shipment of nuclear waste.
Radioactive waste : Cherbourg / Australia
A post-Fukushima realtime test is underway at the Areva reprocessing plant in La Hague, near Cherbourg. Safety is the priority, according to the director of the La Hague nuclear site.
In the same time, the BBC Shanghai is docked at Areva’s terminal in the Cherbourg harbor. She is preparing to be loaded with radioactive waste resulting from reprocessing of Australian spent fuel. This isn’t simulation, but the truth, a sad truth that is a significant safety risk. The most recent bad news to add to the BBC Shanghai’s heavy « criminal record » are 4 deficiencies on August 6, 2015 at Busan, South Korea and 6 deficiencies in Russia on August 11. The Tokyo Memorandum of Understanding, an Asia-Pacific regional agreement on maritime security, classifies the BBC Shanghai as a high-risk ship. Australia, the BBC Shanghai’s country of destination, is a signatory of the Tokyo Memorandum.
