Areva and EDF fighting over at home but happily agreeing on dumping depleted uranium to Russia. Yesterday there was another shipment 500 tonnes of nuclear waste was going to leave France to go to Russia. Easy breezy! That is if Greenpeace was not there to stop them.
Three teams of Greenpeace activists blocked that train carrying nuclear waste to the port to be loaded to go to Russia. Six Greenpeace activists chained themselves to the railway, at two locations en route to Cherbourg. They were removed by the police after spending the night there,but a third team of Greenpeace activists placed a truck on the rails in Cherbourg centre, with a banner saying “Russia is not a nuclear dumping ground”, facing the nuclear train at less than 50m distance. Stopping the train once again. Our activists managed to delay the transport of the illegal nuclear waste and expose once again the dirty lies of the industry.
A pattern occurs: run your dirty business and dump your waste far away. AREVA is an expert, with uranium dumping in Siberia and uranium mining in Niger. Why? It is cheaper and it is out of sight. This is the only way French nuclear model suggests for survival.
-from weblog.greenpeace.org