Cadarache. World Nuclear News 15 Oct 09. "France's nuclear regulator has suspended decommissioning and castigated a plant operator after discovering that plutonium inventory was much higher than thought. The plant owner has now contradicted the regulator
Greenpeace, le 14 octobre 2009. - « Nous estimons que la découverte, à Cadarache, de plusieurs kilos de plutonium ayant échappés à tout inventaire constitue une des situations les plus graves et les plus critiques que l'on ait pu rencontrer dans une inst
contrary to myth, reprocessed French waste is not “recycled.” The hottest waste, about 4 percent of the total, is stored at La Hague, along with about 81 tonnes of separated – and proliferation-friendly – plutonium (1 percent of the total). The remaining
Lasse Karlsson har sammanställt några presscitat kring toppkonferensen i Washington. bl a Chrstian Science Monitors ledare, Eva Selin Lindgren (cp) och ett citat ur Christian Azars bok. Reuters ger en inblick i spelet bakom kulisserna i en intervju med fö
Deutsche Welle 28.11.: "Starting in 2012, no German nuclear waste will be sent to France for reprocessing, with the waste simply being stockpiled instead. Nuclear waste reprocessing extracts reusable elements like plutonium and uranium, but does not reduce the radioactivity of the waste. Germany's anti-nuclear movement is considered one of Europe's strongest. Protesters oppose the transport on several grounds, saying it poses a threat to residents and the environment near the train's path in the event of an accident or an attack." They also say such transports draw attention to what they see as atomic energy's biggest unsolved problem: the disposal of waste. The waste being transported to the site at Gorleben will remain potentially hazardous for thousands of years.