Mini reactors, maxi threats
Greenland / Press release n°3
With small modular reactor projects flourishing in Europe and in the United States, it is time to recount the story of Camp Century in Greenland, where a small modular reactor built in the mid-20th century poses a health and environmental threat in the 21th century and beyond. This is the story of a fiasco and a scandal.
58 years ago, plutonium-239 belonging to the US Air Force crashed into Greenland
Greenland / Press release n°1
The half-life of plutonium-239 is 24,100 years.
On Sunday, January 21, 1968, at around 9 a.m. local time, the Boeing B-52G bomber known as HOBO 28 took off from Platsburgh Air Force Base (New York State) for Mission Junky 14 over the Arctic Circle, Greenland and the US Thule Air Base.
For a ban on nuclear weapons
On Sunday, January 26, 2025, Robin des Bois joined Nihon Hidankyo, the Japanese association awarded the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize representing the survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in a peaceful demonstration in front of the Ile Longue nuclear ballistic missile submarine base, 10 km as the crow flies from the centre of Brest urban area (Department of Finistère, Brittany), which has a population of over 200,000.
