Radioactive waste train repatriated from France to Belgium

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Radioactive waste train repatriated from France to Belgium




by Alain G » 02/02/11, 18:58

A train loaded with 48 drums of nuclear waste produced in Belgium and retired in La Hague, in western France, will arrive Thursday in Belgium, said Wednesday Belgian Green MPs and the NGO Greenpeace.

The environmental deputies Olivier Deleuze, Thérèse Snoy and Kristof Calvo, will lead an "awareness-raising action" Thursday at 17 pm at the station of Mol (north), through which the convoy must pass, they said in a statement.

This waste, produced by Belgian nuclear power plants, has for final destination Dessel storage site, about fifty kilometers east of Antwerp.

According to a spokesperson for Greenpeace Belgium, the environmental activists "will not try to block the convoy".

In early November, a convoy of radioactive waste of German origin retired in France arrived in northern Germany after four days of skirmishes with anti-nuclear activists.

Contacted by AFP, a spokesperson for the Belgian Organism for Radioactive Waste and Enriched Fissile Materials (Ondraf), did not confirm "for security reasons" the arrival of nuclear waste on Thursday.

Ondraf had however indicated in mid-January that preparations were underway for a "second shipment of nuclear waste", but without specifying the date. A first transport took place in June 2010.

"The return of compacted waste is part of the reprocessing contracts concluded between Synatom (the Belgian company which manages nuclear waste) and the French public nuclear group Areva", underlines Ondraf, which specifies that nine transports will be necessary between 2010 and 2013.

The second transport was scheduled for the 1er December but had been canceled due to snow.

Researchers are currently testing the properties of the clay making up Dessel's subsoil to store radioactive waste at great depth (220 meters) for thousands of years, an option rejected by Belgian environmentalists, who advocate storage "in surface, preferably on the very sites of disused production sites (power plants), in order to be able to ensure optimal surveillance ".


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