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Down Under
BBC: Anger at Australian nuclear cargo
2003-10-28
EFL from Worldwire
Australia has dispatched its first shipment of used nuclear fuel to Europe in two years despite furious protests.
No to globalism, keep our nuclear waste at home! And free that Mumia guy, we like his videos.
Five lorries crossed suburban Sydney in the dead of night to deliver 344 spent nuclear fuel rods to a French container ship, the Fret Moselle. Once loaded, the ship then quickly left port before dawn, bound for France where the rods will be reprocessed.
Isn’t the reprocessing center in NK closer?
Activists from the environmental group Greenpeace warily circled the ship in dinghies to condemn the shipment, saying it was fraught with danger.
"There is great danger!"
The shipment is fraught with danger because we are distracting the pilot. Watch how close we get. Look out Bob... that was close. Maybe this could be an X-game.
"These casks are vulnerable to attack by morons in xodiacs terrorist attack," said spokesman James Courtney. "I think that the federal government is downplaying the risk of terrorism when it suits them and playing it up when they want to use it to their advantage."
Whereas Greenpeace is continuously believes that security should be lighter for all installations that we are trying to attack.
Since the 11 September attacks on the US, all countries have stepped up security around the transport of radioactive materials. But activists condemned what they said was a huge security operation at the dock as a waste of taxpayers’ money.
Didn’t they just say that there wasn’t enough security? and that the shipment was in danger.
"Yes! Danger! Great danger!... Oh, hold me, Ethel!"
"There were 10 police launches protecting the vessel, including fast inflatable vessels with guys in black helmets and night-vision goggles... racing around the water," said one, Danny Kennedy.
Psst Danny, that was you guys.
"It is an obscene abuse of the public purse only necessary because of morons like us."
"That's money that could be better spent on subsidizing public interest groups, like... ummm... us."
Cogema is contracted to extract and retain enriched uranium and send intermediate-level radioactive waste back to Australia for long-term storage. However, Greenpeace alleges that because of summer, fall, winter and spring holidays technical problems in France, no Australian nuclear fuel has yet been reprocessed.
No luck here, boys. It’s on to Iran.
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