Re: Greenpeace says N-shipment to Japan dangerous

["ruth_weiner" <ruth_weiner@email.msn.com>]

I cannot adequately express my irritation and frustration at this kind of
deliberate misleading of the public.  I do RAM transportation risk
assessment.  Greenpeace knows perfectly well that the risks are
insignificant.  They just continue to lie and lie and lie about it.

If anyone wants published references, I'll post them on RADSAFE.

Ruth Weiner
ruth_weiner@men.com.
-----Original Message-----
From: Sandy Perle <sandyfl@earthlink.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Thursday, August 10, 2000 11:09 AM
Subject: Greenpeace says N-shipment to Japan dangerous


>Greenpeace says N-shipment to Japan dangerous
>
>PARIS (Reuters) - Greenpeace said Wednesday a shipment of nuclear
>fuel containing plutonium was due to leave France for Japan next
>month and warned countries along the route they would be at risk.
>
>The environmental group said in a statement the shipment of 28
>containers of recycled MOX -- plutonium-uranium mixed oxide -- would
>contain some 500 pounds of weapons-grade plutonium.
>
>``The shipment poses a totally unnecessary risk for people living in
>countries along the route and for those living in the countries where
>this fuel is made,'' Greenpeace said.
>
>Environmentalists fear the ship could sink in a storm or be attacked
>by terrorists trying to seize the plutonium.
>
>The shipment will be the second of dozens expected to take recycled
>Japanese plutonium back to its utility owners in the form of MOX.
>
>A first shipment of 40 MOX containers was made from the French port
>of Cherbourg a year ago. Greenpeace protesters briefly delayed the
>departure of the ship which sailed to Japan via the Cape of Good Hope
>and Tasmania.
>
>Japanese power companies have contracts overseas for reprocessing and
>recycling nuclear fuel with France's Cogema and British Nuclear Fuels
>Plc.
>
>No comment was immediately available from Cogema.
>
>Greenpeace and Japanese environmental groups asked a Japanese court
>Wednesday to halt the use of MOX at a reactor in the north of the
>country.
>
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