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| Breaking News |
Radioactive waste leaking into Champagne's water supply - Levels set to rise warns Greenpeace |
Illegal French nuclear waste dump must be removed and decontaminated - Greenpeace files legal challenge against AREVA |
Chernobyl - 26 april 1986 |
Why Do Tomsk Residents Need Radioactive Tails? 19 december 2005 - Today at the Uzhnaya Square the Tomsk Ecological Students Inspection (TESI) held a demonstration where everybody could sign a statement to the heads of the Siberian Chemical Plant with the demand to provide the public with information about import of foreign nuclear materials in the region. The campaign “Why Do Tomsk Residents Need Radioactive Tails?” is carried out with the information support of Greenpeace Russia and the international group Ecodefense. More |
French Court of Annulment historical judgment |
| Greenpeace blockade of Russia bound nuclear waste shipment ends |
) Le Havre - 01/12/2005 - 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. More - Photos - Video |
| Europe’s secret nuclear waste dumping in Russia revealed |
) Le Havre - 01/12/2005 - Since 2.00am this morning twenty Greenpeace activists are blocking the loading of nuclear waste on to the Russian freighter, Kapitan Kuroptchev, in the northern French port of le Havre. The ship was preparing to transport more than 450 tons of radioactive uranium waste originating from the Pierlatte uranium enrichment plant in the Rhone Valley. Greenpeace has launched the protest to expose the thirty year old practice of illegally transporting and dumping nuclear wastes produced in Europe in shipped to Russia. A new report from Greenpeace, “Europe's Radioactive Secret”, details the illegal nuclear waste trade between Europe's nuclear industry and the Russian Federation. More - Video |
To prevent proliferation of military nuclear or terrorist activities, to avoid terrible threats to human health and the environment: the plutonium industry and its costly, dangerous and useless traffic must be stopped immediately.
On Wednesday February 19th 2003, in the very centre of Chalon-sur-Saone, and with disconcerting ease, Greenpeace intercepted and blocked symbolically a Cogema Logistics truck. This truck was transporting 150 kilograms of plutonium powder, in PuO2 form - enough to make close to twenty Hiroshima sized bombs. At the same time, Greenpeace published a comprehensive study, performed by WISE-Paris consultants, addressing plutonium industry generated transport and the associated risks to which populations and the environment are exposed.
The Chalon action and the Wise-Paris report were the first phases of a Greenpeace campaign to uncover and shed light upon the plutonium traffic in France and inform everyone concerned of the dangers that the plutonium industry is exposing them to, without their knowledge. As part of this campaign, Greenpeace has created the Cellule Citoyenne de Contrôle et d'Inspection des matières fissiles (CCCI) or Citizen Unit for the Control and Inspection of Fissile Materials. The objective of this unit, composed of "Greenpeace inspectors", is to continue to investigate the ultra-secret plutonium traffic criss-crossing France.
On this site, you will find detailed maps (french) of plutonium industry's operations, a comprehensive description of transportation methods and trucks used as well as a lot of information on plutonium, MOX, weapons of mass destruction (french) and nuclear proliferation (french). Have a nice visit.
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