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Greenpeace blockade of Russia bound nuclear waste shipment ends
01 december 2005 - Le Havre
Pierrelatte, 27/11 Villeneuve St George, 29/11 Le Havre 30/11 - vidéo MPG 
Kapitan-Kuroptev - Le Havre - 30/11 
Le Havre - 01/12 Le Havre - 01/12 
After ten hours, twenty activists from Greenpeace have been removed from a dockside crane and the Russian nuclear freighter, Kapitan Kuroptchev, in the northern French port of le Havre. French RAID team security police removed climbers who had suspended banners in Russian and English on both the 60 metre dockside crane being used to load a cargo of uranium wastes, and the superstructure and crane of the ship itself. Banners suspended from the structures demanded a ‘stop’ to the ‘traffic’ in nuclear waste and its dumping in the Russian Federation by Europe’s largest nuclear companies, such EDF, EoN and Vattenfal, as well as enrichment companies Urenco and Eurodif, as well as reprocessing company Cogema/Areva.
The protest came amidst deliberate deception by French state nuclear company Areva, whose spokesman stated that the uranium is “not nuclear waste”, but instead is re-enriched and sent back to France. The reality is demonstrated in a Greenpeace report published today(1) that the vast bulk of uranium waste is dumped in Russia and only 10% is returned, a huge fact simply 'forgotten' by Areva. Though starting in the 1970’s, nuclear waste dumping expanded dramatically with agreements from 1991 for 106,000 tonnes of uranium wastes to be shipped to Russia. Of this amount, over 90% has been dumped at four Siberian nuclear sites, including Tomsk-7.(2)
“Deception is inherent to the nuclear industry – they have dumped nuclear waste in Russia for decades they are hardly going to admit it openly,” said …” However, if the nuclear power industry wants to prove its claims, they should immediately publish all their contracts with Russia to return the uranium dumped since the 1970’s, schedules for its shipment to Europe, as well as full disclosure plans for its use in European reactors. In the meantime we will be investigating further this illegal trade with Russia,”
The ship, now removed of Greenpeace activists, will proceed with completing the loading of more than 450 tons of radioactive uranium waste originating from the Pierrelatte uranium enrichment plant in the Rhone Valley. The ship is anticipated to enter the English Channel later today bound for the Russian port city of St Petersburg, via the North Sea and Baltic.
PDF - Europe's radioactive secretSee also : Dumping in Russia
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