Nuclear waste ship 'near Australia' [View All]

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By Peter Williams
April 01, 2005
From: AAP
A SHIP carrying dangerous nuclear waste from France was sailing off Australia today en route to the Pacific, the environmental group Greenpeace said today.

The Pacific Sandpiper, carrying the 10th return shipment of nuclear material between France and Japan since they began in 1995, should be south of Tasmania and entering the Tasman Sea as early as this weekend, according to Greenpeace.
"The release of even a small fraction of this cargo from either an accident or a deliberate attack could lead to an environmental and public health catastrophe," Greenpeace campaign manager Cindy Baxter said.

The waste from plutonium reprocessing at a plant in La Hague, France, using Japanese irradiated fuel, is transported from the port of Cherbourg by Pacific Nuclear Transport Limited (PNTL).
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