“Russia is not a garbage can”, “Stop radioactive trafficking” or even “Nuclear is not green” could be read on the banners displayed near the port.
A dozen activists from the NGO Greenpeace disrupted this Friday around 9 a.m. in the port of Dunkirk (North) the loading of twenty containers of French used uranium on board the cargo ship Conmar Elbe which is to take the road to Saint Petersburg, in Russia.
In a press release, the non-governmental organization calls for "the definitive end of French reprocessing uranium exports to Russia, which are environmental, social and economic nonsense."
"For the militants, uranium must" integrate the category of
waste,
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Still according to Greenpeace, these containers left Drôme by train on Monday early afternoon and arrived in Dunkirk on Wednesday evening.
"The recycling that the nuclear industry boasts is a myth"
Already on October 12, by demonstrating in front of the headquarters of Orano (formerly Areva) in Châtillon (Hauts-de-Seine), Greenpeace denounced the resumption in early 2021 of the export of this nuclear waste to Seversk, in the middle of Siberia, where a very polluting treatment renders the initial material “unusable”.
Waste can also be stored as is.
"The recycling which the nuclear industry boasts of is a myth: nuclear waste is only accumulating, whether in Russia or in France, with no credible prospect of reuse", comments in this press release Yannick Rousselet, campaign manager Nuclear at Greenpeace France.
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Nuclear: Greenpeace denounces exports of reprocessed uranium in Russia
“Nuclear power must be definitively excluded from European taxonomy,” concludes the organization in its press release.
The European Union's classification of investments considered green, and no new reactors should be built.
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