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- From: Greenpeace via Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
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- Subject: NEWS: Greenpeace Anti-Nuke Action in Luxemburg
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- Date: 22 Dec 1992 00:39:28 GMT
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- [Greenpeace Press Release from Environet -- Redistribute Freely]
- [Note the lovely "Luxembourgish" English accent throughout.]
-
- 19 December 1992
-
- GREENPEACE ANTI-NUKE ACTION IN EUROPE
-
- This morning, members of Greenpeace Luxemburg and of COREPRA, a
- regional organisation, took the last samples of their program to
- analyse the radioactive discharges entering the Mosel river from
- the french nuclear power plant in Cattenom, situated less than
- 10 kilometers away from the luxembourgish border.
-
- This sampling program, begun in August of this year, consists of
- analysing transfered aquatic mosses (fontinalis) taken at five
- different places in the Mosel river. Five series of mosses have
- been introduced into the Mosel river, each for twenty days.
-
- One of the samples has been taken directly in the discharge
- effluent of the radioactive cooling water of the Cattenom plant.
- The most distant sample has been taken close to the luxemburgish
- border.
-
- The Greenpeace activists had to use zodiacs to take the samples,
- as the discharge installation is surrounded by barbed wire.
- The activists marked the different sampling places with buoys
- bearing the radiation symbol. A sign saying: "Attention!
- Radioactive discharges from the Cattenom nuclear power plant.
- Fishing and bathing hazardous." was fixed close to the
- discharge.
-
- "With this sampling program, Greenpeace and COREPRA will show
- that the radioactive pollution, despite dilution in the Mosel,
- is accumulating in the environment and in the food chain", said
- Roger Spautz, Greenpeace Luxembourg's anti-nuclear campaigner.
-
- "It is irresponsible that EDF (Electricite de France) is
- controlling , alone, the radioactive pollution of their own
- plant", said Spautz.
-
- Last january, France's President Mitterrand had promised the
- luxemburgish government to allow the installation of its own
- monitoring station next to the site of the Cattenom nuclear
- power plant. This station has not been installed up to now.
-
- With their program, Greenpeace and COREPRA denounce the
- disinterest of the governments and public institutions to
- protect the population against the dangers of nuclear power
- and ask for an independant control of the radioactive emissions
- of the Cattenom plant.
-