Re: Argentine judge bans US ship with nuclear cargo

["HP Dean" <RadConDean@comcast.net>]

Argentineans could always sink the shipment (as they did the British

destroyer and save SCE a bunch of burial cost monies.



Dean Chaney

----- Original Message ----- 

From: "John Jacobus" <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>

To: "Charly Frey" <cfrey@ssi-group.net>; <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 9:49 AM

Subject: Re: Argentine judge bans US ship with nuclear cargo





> Will the Argentinian government enforce this ban?

> Just how far do Argentinian waters extend?

>

> --- Charly Frey <cfrey@ssi-group.net> wrote:

> > Argentine judge bans US ship with nuclear cargo

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >       BUENOS AIRES: An Argentine judge has banned a

> > US ship laden with high-level nuclear waste from

> > Argentine territorial waters.

> >

> >       Federal Judge Jorge Pflejer decided in favor

> > of a suit by the state government in Chubut,

> > southern Argentina.

> >

> >

> >       The US freighter sought to sail around Cape

> > Horn carrying waste from a dismantled nuclear

> > reactor, according to court documents presented by

> > Chabut state attorney Jorge Miquelarena.

> >

> >       "The goal is not only to keep the boat out of

> > our ports, but also out of Argentine waters," he

> > said.

> >

> >       Environmental groups Greenpeace and Taller

> > Ecologista gave Chabut state Governor Mario Das

> > Neves the information to file the suit.

> >

> >       Southern California Edison shipped the

> > dismantled the reactor from San Onofre, California

> > to a waste site in Barnwell, South Carolina.

> >

> >       The trip from California, around Cape Horn at

> > the southern tip of Chile and Argentina and up to

> > the Carolinas is about 20,000 kilometers (12,500

> > miles).

> >

> >

>

>

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