Posts Tagged "Japon"

The departure of High Level Waste: the sooner and the shorter the better.

22 Feb 1995

According to Cogema, the vitrified waste represents 3 % of the spent fuel mass, and 99 % of its radioactivity. For the safety of the crew and to reduce the risks of sea pollution by sinking or by collision, the route must be as short as possible, passing through the Panama Canal.

Panama has accepted the transit of ships carrying spent fuel to Cherbourg for fifteen years. Today the “protests” against sending back the nuclear waste to Japan come essentially from countries who accommodate convenience flags and who put sailors, ports and oceans throughout the world in constant danger by authorizing the navigation of sub-standard ships run by inorganized crews often reduced to slavery. Thus the Philippines, St. Vincent and Grenadines, Antigua, Barbuda and Honduras share and relay the concerns of three organisations hostile towards returning the waste to Japan : Citizen’s Nuclear Information Center (Tokyo), Nuclear Control Institute (Washington) and Greenpeace.

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(Français) Cherbourg : des munitions pour le Japon

7 Apr 1994

Only in French.

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(Français) Cherbourg : des munitions pour le Japon

7 Apr 1994

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(Français) 45ème réunion de la CBI – commentaires de Robin des Bois

14 May 1993

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(Français) Robin des Bois est au Japon pour protester contre l’arrivée du Plutonium

4 Jan 1993

Only in French.

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