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Pollution : Nuclear Waste Transport and Disposal
- Applying the Precautionary Principle to Shipments of Radioactive Wase
-- "The 'precautionary principle' has gained almost universal acceptance as the rule that should govern activities that affect the environment. This principle requires users of the ocean to exercise caution by undertaking research and avoiding activities that present risks to marine ecosystems. This paper will outline these responsibilities and will demonstrate that the principle has not been complied with by the Japanese agencies in charge of nuclear shipments."
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- Dumped chemical weapons from World War II still haunt busy Baltic Sea
-- Tons of captured Nazi chemical munitions — including some containing mustard gas blister agents and the infamous Zyklon B used in concentration camps — rest on the Baltic seabed. Estimates on the amount dumped by the Allies range from at least 13,000 tons to more than 200,000 tons.
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- LARGEST EVER NUCLEAR WASTE SHIPMENT DEPARTS FOR JAPAN
-- (2000) The largest shipment to date of highly radioactive reprocessing waste departed Cherbourg, France on the night of December 19, bound for Japan via Cape Horn, South America. The shipment, aboard the British-flagged vessel Pacific Swan, consists of 8 shipping casks holding 192 half-ton logs of glassified nuclear waste, a byproduct of reprocessing spent nuclear fuel to remove weapons-usable plutonium.
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- Nuclear Waste: Storage and Disposal Methods
-- "In the half century of the nuclear age, the U.S. has accumulated some 30,000 metric tons of spent fuel rods from power reactors and another 380,000 cubic meters of high-level radioactive waste, a by-product of producing plutonium for nuclear weapons. None of these materials have found anything more than interim accomadation, despite decades of study and expenditures in the billions of dollars on research, development and storage."
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- Nuclear Wastes: The Threat to our Oceans
-- Radioactive Lobsters in Irish Sea; Cap de la Hague Discharge; Nuclear Wastes Storage in Pacific; Pakistan dumping nuclear waste in sea; Nuclear waste piling up on Russian docks; Recycling nuclear waste threat to oceans
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- PLUTONIUM SHIPMENT TO JAPAN IS UNLAWFUL AND VULNERABLE
-- (1999) The United States and Japan unlawfully authorized a shipment of a half-ton of plutonium now arriving in Japan, and the State Department misled Congress about the adequacy of security arrangements for the shipment, according to government documents released by the Nuclear Control Institute and Greenpeace.
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- SHIPMENT OF US-ORIGIN PLUTONIUM SET TO DEPART FRANCE
-- (2001)The second sea shipment of U.S.-origin plutonium undertaken during the Clinton Administration is set to depart today from Cherbourg, France for Japan. In the last half of 2000, the U.S. Government secretly reviewed and approved security arrangements for the controversial transport, which consists of 28 mixed uranium-plutonium oxide (MOX) fuel assemblies, containing about a quarter-ton of weapons-usable plutonium.
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- The Sea Shipment of Radioactive Materials: Safety and Environmental Concern
-- The shipment of large quantities of radioactive materials by sea is a controversial practice. There are vast differences in the perception of the risks to the world's population and to the environment among the various stakeholders in the debate, especially the nuclear industry that relies on sea shipments and the populations of coastal states that are situated adjacent to shipping routes or who depend on fisheries that may lie on those routes...
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- Transport of Raadioactive Materials
-- "Since 1971 there have been more than 20 000 shipments of spent fuel and high-level wastes (over 50 000 tonnes) over more than 30 million kilometres."
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