Nuclear waste set to leave for Japan

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@ix.netcom.com>]

Ample opportunities for more protests over radwaste shipments coming 
up this week. Greenpeace is quite active lately, protecting Australian 
Aborigines, individuals along the Panama Canal and everywhere we 
"nuclear antagonists" are out to do our most dastardly deeds!  Where 
is that Nobel Peace prize medal for Greenpeace ... ever so humble and 
advocated for humanitarian causes :)

   CHERBOURG, France, Jan 19 (AFP) - A cargo of reprocessed  
Japanese nuclear waste will leave this north-western French port on
Wednesday, state-owned reprocessors Compagnie Generale des Matieres
Nucleaires (COGEMA) announced on Monday. 
   COGEMA, which operates a reprocessing plant at La Hague near  here,
said the vitrified waste would be carried back to Japan in 60
containers aboard the ship Pacific Swan. 
   The containers were moved secretively from the reprocessing  
plant to COGEMA's port terminal at Cherbourg overnight on Sunday under
police surveillance. 
   COGEMA spokesman Herve Hacard said the Pacific Swan would sail 
Wednesday but that its route would be revealed on Thursday. 
   The environmental organisation Greenpeace and the US Nuclear 
Control Institute (NCI) said in Washington last Tuesday that the
Pacific Swan would pass through the Panama Canal. 
   The two organisations said that the route posed unacceptable  risks
for regional security and called on the United States to refuse
transit for the ship through the canal. 
   A cargo of nuclear waste was transported around Cape Horn in  1995
and a second around the Cape of Good Hope in 1997. 
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