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Archives of News published in the Framework of the Plutonium Investigation Project
2004
Fourth quarter of 2003
Third quarter of 2003
Second quarter of 2003
First quarter of 2003
Fourth quarter of 2002
Third quarter of 2002
Second quarter of 2002
First quarter of 2002
Fourth quarter of 2001
Third quarter of 2001
Second quarter of 2001
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Third quarter of 2000
Second quarter of 2000
First quarter of 2000
Fourth quarter of 1999
Third quarter of 1999
Second quarter of 1999
First quarter of 1999
Year 1998
2004
29/09/2004
PRESS RELEASE: WISE-Paris and Large & Associates
challenge the official assessment of the risk of plutonium transports
WISE-Paris, 28 September 2004
Fourth quarter
of 2003
06/12/2003
France : the Governement “White Paper on energies” dissociates
energy options from the future of the French nuclear industry
In a White Paper published on 7 November 2003, the French Government
broadens options for the French energy future. It gives up the dogma
of the continuation of the nuclear power, even considering a “phase-out
scenario”, and delays any decision on the construction of a new
reactor, EPR (European Pressurized Reactor. It thus clearly dissociates
the stakes between energy strategy - for which there is no need of an
EPR- and the support to a project pushed by the constructor, Framatome,
for several years as “essential for the survival” of the
French nuclear industry.
WISE-Paris, 9 November 2003
Download the note, in French only: "L'EPR : un choix du passé
qui fermerait l'avenir" (PDF file, 9 p., 139 Ko):
http://www.wise-paris.org/francais/rapports/notes/031117NoteEPR-Passe.pdf
28/11/2003
POINT OF VUE: The Dangers of Fusion
WISE-Paris, London, November 2003
By Dr I. Fairlie*
Third quarter
of 2003
09/09/2003
Public inquiry on discharges and water withdrawals of the Cattenom power plant: Serious blanks in EDF’s request
WISE-Paris, 9 September 2003
Download the related note, in french only (PDF file, 21 p., 355 Ko)
09/09/2003
“Transfer” of MOX production capacity from Cadarache to Marcoule: one scandal after another
The summer of 2003, which saw the ending of “commercial production” by the ATPu facility at Cadarache (France), marked a successful conclusion to the operator's blackmail tactics. On 3 September 2003, Cogema was granted what it demanded: the authorization of a transfer of production capacity from the ATPu to the Melox plant at Marcoule.
But Cogema's strategy of “fait accompli” at the ATPu continues: on 12 August 2003, probably without the French government go-ahead, and without even consulting the safety authorities, the company signed a contract to fabricate fuel assemblies based on American military plutonium at Cadarache. It now remains for the authorities to explain how this wholly exceptional operation can be justified in a facility with inadequate safety. However, the government may put a swift end to the argument: in an Order published on 9 August, it has jut extended the protection of “military secret” status to possibly all of the nuclear industry's activities.
WISE-Paris, 8 September 2003
30/07/2003
The end of «commercial production» of the MOX plant at Cadarache, ATPu
Too risky for European fuel, but just right for US weapons plutonium?
WISE-Paris, 30 July 2003
02/07/2003
Ireland vs. UK: international court moves aside, European Commission
pushes to settle the Sellafield row
WISE-Paris, 30 June 2003, updated 3 July 2003
Second quarter
of 2003
19/06/2003
Ireland vs. UK on Sellafield : suspension of further proceedings
The dispute could be transferred to the European level, as the
UK and the European Union asked.
WISE-Paris, 18 June 2003
19/06/2003
Big Push For Interim Storage
of Spent Fuel in Japan
On 26 June 2003, local authorities are expected to grant approval
for the construction of a large spent fuel interim storage facility
in the city of Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, Japan.
WISE-Paris, 18 June 2003
12/06/2003
After the Nuclear Referendums
in Switzerland: From Explicit to De-Facto Phase-Out
WISE-Paris, 12 June 2003
11/06/2003
Ireland takes UK to court again on Sellafield
The third legal bid of Ireland at an international court on Sellafield points out unjustified risks and presses the United Kingdom to cease operation of its plutonium complex.
WISE-Paris, 11 June 2003
05/06/2003
En route for the 8th shipment of vitrified waste to Japan… but most of the foreign waste remains in France
With the 8th return of Japanese vitrified waste, COGEMA puts an end to the 2002 return plan delays. After this shipment, about one third of the total quantity of vitrified waste to be returned to Japan will effectively be back. This is only a small part of the total quantity of various kinds of foreign waste that is still being stored at La Hague.
WISE-Paris, 5 June 2003
First quarter
of 2003
24/02/2003
Hundreds of plutonium transports
in France: a WISE-Paris report unveils this high risk activity
WISE-Paris, 21 February 2003
30/01/2003
Enormous "plutonium gap"
at Japan's Tokai plant highlights proliferation risks of reprocessing
Introduction by WISE-Paris, 29 January 2003
Fourth quarter
of 2002
02/12/2002
Whistleblower Vanunu : the parole
hearing is adjourned for the second time
WISE-Paris, 1 December 2002
20/11/2002
Switzerland “forgets”
civilian separated plutonium stock abroad
WISE-Paris, 19 november 2002
20/11/2002
US plutonium stockpile: “…certain
materials were counted twice”
WISE-Paris, 19 november 2002
20/11/2002
UK Government admits that part
of separated plutonium and uranium stocks “may have to be managed
as waste”
On 26 September 2002 the United Kingdom Government admitted in a
written answer by to a parliamentary question that UK separated plutonium
and uranium, byproducts of the reprocessing industry, “may have
to be managed as waste”.
WISE-Paris, 12 November 2002
16/11/2002
Is a German ‘energy model’
emerging?
WISE-Paris, 15 November 2002
25/10/2002
Coalition agreement signed by
the SPD and Grüne parties represented in the former and new German
governments
WISE-Paris, 25 October 2002
19/10/2002
Third shipment of vitrified waste
on its way back to Switzerland
Since the referendum opposing the nuclear waste lab of Wellenberg,
the fate of high level waste seems more doubtful than ever.
WISE-Paris, 18 October 2002
18/10/2002
Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai
Vanunu awaiting parole hearing after 16 years of imprisonment
WISE-Paris, 18 October 2002
17/10/2002
Nuclear disarmament for peace:
a beautiful pretext for the world nuclear industry
WISE-Paris, 17 October 2002
11/10/2002
Broadscale fallout of Japanese
BWR falsification and safety scandal
Calls for an in depth review of the nuclear policy and the cancellation
of the MOX program.
See the following document in PDF
format (174 Ko):
Table
1. Safety Problems in Japanese Boiling Water Reactors, and Fig. 1. Japan
nuclear power plants
WISE-Paris, 11 October 2002
10/10/2002
US NGOs
Target COGEMA’s Environmental Record
A recent publication from the Safe Energy Communication Council
(SECC) compiles “incidents of concern of activities involving
COGEMA that jeopardize human health and the environment” (1)
and cases of COGEMA unconformity with international regulations.
WISE-Paris, 8 October 2002
Third
quarter of 2002
26/09/2002
Fifth
Return Shipment of Belgian High Level Waste from La Hague – Quality-Control
Issue Still Pending
WISE-Paris, 26 September 2002
17/09/2002
Kozloduy,
Bulgaria: COGEMA Consultant Finds that Reprocessing Turns out 20% More
Expensive than Direct Disposal
WISE-Paris, 16 September 2002
07/09/2002
Whistleblowing turns into tornado:
TEPCO’s falsification of safety records plunges Japanese nuclear
industry into deep crisis
WISE-Paris, 6 September 2002
06/09/2002
Reprocessing
burden too heavy for British Energy, faced with insolvency
Labour MPs’ supported SERA urges the Government for stopping BNFL
contracts
WISE-Paris, 6 September 2002
28/08/2002
UK civilian plutonium stockpile
still on the uphill
WISE-Paris, 27 August 2002
28/07/2002
COGEMA non-suited by the highest
French jurisdiction
WISE-Paris, 26 July 2002
05/07/2002
Switzerland divided over the
reprocessing question, but industry remains wary
At a time when Switzerland is politically divided over the introduction
of a law banning reprocessing of irradiated fuels, the Gösgen nuclear
power plant announced, on 24 May 2002, that it planned to increase its
storage capacity from 600 to 1 600 fuel assemblies.
WISE-Paris, 7 July 2002
01/07/2002
Basic Safety Requirements Jeopardize
Russian International Nuclear Waste Dump Program
Russian Ministry for Atomic Energy (Minatom) program to build an
international repository for foreign nuclear wastes in the Mayak area
are jeopardized by a letter written by Yuriy Vishnevskiy, head of Gosatomnadzor,
the federal regulatory body of Russia for nuclear and radiation safety.
In this letter, the head of Russian safety authority rejects the idea
of such a repository on basic safety grounds.
WISE-Paris, 27 June 2002
Second quarter of 2002
28/06/2002
Steam Generator Tube Rupture
Accident in South Korea
The fourteenth Steam Generator Tube Rupture (SGTR) accident of the
nuclear history occurred on 5 April 2002 at the Uljin nuclear power
plant (unit 4) in the North-Eastern part of South Korea. This rare event
is potentially disastrous and can lead to significant releases of radioactivity
to the environment. In this case, 45 tons of primary coolant water leaked
into the secondary coolant circuit.
WISE-Paris, 27 June 2002
23/06/2002
Shipping Parts of the US Military
Plutonium Disposition Program to Europe?
WISE-Paris, 21 June 2002
23/06/2002
South Carolina Governor’s
decision to ban plutonium shipments canceled
WISE-Paris, 21 June 2002
15/06/2002
Representative puts questions
to DOE about uncertainties in the US plutonium disposition plan
WISE-Paris, 14 June 2002
06/06/2002
The US House of Representatives
approves Yucca Mountain as Final Repository – Many Uncertainties
Remain
WISE-Paris, 5 June 2002
05/06/2002
Argentina: Physicians Against
the Import of Australian Spent Fuel
WISE-Paris, 4 June 2002
27/05/2002
Japanese Governor remains doubtful
over national plutonium policy
WISE-Paris, 27 May 2002
23/05/2002
The US prepare to face new terrorist
attack, but most of nuclear reactors could not withstand it
WISE-Paris, 23 May 2002
14/05/2002
U-Turn of the US Military Plutonium
Disposition Program
WISE-Paris, 13 May 2002
10/05/2002
Statement on Yucca Mountain
By Richard A. Gephardt, Democratic Leader in the House of Representatives
of the US Congress
H-204, U.S. Capitol, May 8, 2002
05/04/2002
US radioactive remediation “accelerated”
– Completion advanced from 2070 to 2035
WISE-Paris, 05 April 2002
First quarter of 2002
27/03/2002
New Plutonium Separation Workshop
Opened by COGEMA at La Hague
COGEMA’s brand new workshop is ready to reprocess MOX fuel…
although it is not authorized to do so. Meanwhile, it doubles La Hague’s
theoretical capacity of plutonium separation, though the operational
capacity could be limited due to other workshops involved in the process.
WISE-Paris, 27 March 2002
22/03/2002
Fallout from atmospheric
nuclear weapons testing: are the French less sensitive than the Americans?
WISE-Paris, 21 March 2002
22/03/2002
Part of plutonium and uranium
stocks must be declared waste, says Advisory Committee to the UK Government
WISE-Paris, 21 March 2002
15/03/2002
European Commissioner Confirms
Discharge Data Published in the WISE-Paris Report on Sellafield and
La Hague
WISE-Paris, 15 March 2002
12/03/2002
WISE-Paris lodges a complaint
against person or persons unknown for forgery and the use of forged
documents
Handling and dissemination, for defamatory purposes, of documents
pertaining to the study for the European Parliament on La Hague and
Sellafield
WISE-Paris, 12 March 2002
05/03/2002
New figures for plutonium stocks
worldwide
WISE-Paris, 4 March 2002
30/01/2002
Sellafield Radioactive Waste
Management: A Bit of High Level = A Lot of Low Level?
WISE-Paris, 30 January 2002
29/01/2002
The US rules out the immobilization
option for plutonium from "surplus" weapons
WISE-Paris, 29 January 2002
Fourth
quarter of 2001
21/12/2001
Final End of US Plutonium
Breeder Reactor Program: FFTF Shut Down
WISE-Paris, 21 December 2001
19/12/2001
Summary and Conclusions of
the STOA Report now Available in 11 Languages
WISE-Paris, 19 December 2001
17/12/2001
US Department of Energy Nuclear
Materials Unaccounted For
WISE-Paris, 17 December 2001
05/12/2001
New shipment of vitrified residues
to Japan
WISE-Paris, 3 December 2001
04/11/2001
Outcome of Court Case Opposing
Ireland and the UK over Sellafield Mox Plant Remains Open
WISE-Paris, 4 December 2001
23/11/2001
Irish Government Presents WISE-Paris
Report as "Evidence" in Case Against the UK Over the Sellafield
MOX Plant
WISE-Paris, 23 November 2001
23/11/2001
The European Parliament finally
publishes the study on Sellafield and La Hague commissioned by STOA
to WISE-Paris
The final document was officially published on 22 November 2001 on
the Parliament website as a "first contribution to the scientific
debate" to be conducted by the Parliament on the "possible
toxic effects" from the reprocessing plants.
WISE-Paris, 22 November 2001
15/11/2001
International Tribunal for the
Law of the Sea holds hearing on the Irish case against the UK over MOX
facility on 19-20 November 2001
WISE-Paris, 13 October 200
13/11/2001
Members of the UK Parliament
call on the Government to install anti-aircraft missiles at Sellafield
WISE-Paris, 13 November 2001
09/11/2001
Will the UK install anti-aircraft
batteries at Sellafield ?
WISE-Paris, 8 November 2001
02/11/2001
An order issued by the
Ministry of Defense on 23 October 2001 reinforces the no-fly zone over
La Hague
WISE-Paris, 30 October 2001
02/11/2001
New WISE-Paris Analysis: Plane
Crash on Sellafield could have Devastating Consequences
File in PDF format:
Airliner Crash on Nuclear Facilities - The Sellafield Case (7p., 417 Ko)
WISE-Paris, 29 October 2001
31/10/2001
Chairman of STOA Panel officialy
confirms decision to publish WISE-Paris's study
WISE-Paris, 31 October 2001
25/10/2001
The European Parliament Scientific
and Technological Office Assessment publishes the WISE-Paris report
on Sellafield (UK) and La Hague (F)
WISE-Paris, 25 October 2001
08/10/2001
WISE-Paris answers COGEMA:
The consequences of the crash of an airliner on La Hague are unimaginable
WISE-Paris, 8 October 2001
Third quarter
of 2001
28/09/2001
A blind re-start
The Safety authority gives the green light for the re-start of
Cattenom 3
http://www.wise-paris.org/english/reports/010928BriefCAT-v1-Ang.pdf
(12 pages, 97 Ko)
WISE-Paris, 28 September 2001
27/09/2001
La Hague Particularly Exposed
to Plane Crash Risk
WISE-Paris, 27 September 2001
21/08/2001
The German scrap MOX imports
case: Court decides it's competent
WISE-Paris, 19 August 2001
21/08/2001
COGEMA - La Hague : two simultaneous
breakdowns behind significant gaseous releases
WISE-Paris, 7 August 2001
30/07/2001
Reprocessing option ruled out
at Dounreay
"A first dent in the belief in the myth of reprocessing" in the
UK, says MP Paul Flynn
WISE-Paris, 29 July 2001
16/07/2001
An unexpected development:
Japan's MOX program postponed for at least a year
WISE-Paris, 12 June 2001
16/07/2001
EDF and a plant manager in
the dock for failing to meet safety requirements
One-month prison sentence and a FrF500,000 fine
WISE-Paris, 27 June 2001
16/07/2001
Australian fuel at La
Hague: COGEMA under pressure from the courts
Monday 25 June 2001, a district court in Cherbourg (TGI —Tribunal
de Grande Instance) has declared that ruling on importing of irradiated
Australian fuel in the case between COGEMA and Greenpeace is within
its jurisdiction, contrary to the opinions of the Prefect for the
La Manche region and of COGEMA.
WISE-Paris, 27 June 2001
10/07/2001
European MPs Protest German
Policy on MOX Fabrication
An open letter to Jürgen Trittin German Environment Minister
WISE-Paris, 9 July 2001
Second quarter of 2001
14/06/2001
German Government and Utilities
Sign Phase-Out Plan
WISE-Paris, 14 June 2001
14/06/2001
Unprecedented leaks on fuel
assemblies at Cattenom
WISE-Paris, 31 May 2001
30/05/2001
The French " reprocessing
ideology " splits a little more
Measuring the ever-increasing rift in France between industrial
practices and the "total reprocessing" doctrine, a parliamentary
report calls on the government to "end the current
ambiguity" and proposes that practices be regulated within
the framework of a law on the backend of the nuclear chain.
WISE-Paris, 22 May 2001
28/05/2001
No parliamentary inquiry into
"problems of application of the law" at La Hague
France's National Assembly has rejected a draft resolution to create
a Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry to examine the practice of storage
of nuclear materials at La Hague without authorization for their reprocessing.
WISE-Paris, 7 May 2001
First quarter of 2001
22/03/2001
CRILAN request for injunction
rejected on formal grounds
COGEMA wins a battle over the waste from Hanau/Germany
WISE-Paris, 21 March 2001
22/03/2001
French Commission for Sustainable
Development: "MOX option not an equitable one for future generations"
Notice published on 28 February 2001
16/03/2001
Sensational Court Ruling
COGEMA Prohibited to Unload Australian Nuclear Fuel in France
WISE-Paris / Plutonium Investigation
Paris, 15 March 2001
08/03/2001
Secret Shipments and Illegal
Storage
The strange story of imported waste at la Hague
WISE-Paris, 8 March 2001
15/02/2001
WISE-Paris/Plutonium Investigation
uncovers " secret " shipments of German plutonium waste
to La Hague
WISE-Paris, 15 February 2001
05/02/2001
Jospin and Schröder agree
to resume nuclear transport
Communiqué of 31/01/2001 from the Prime Minister's Office,
translated by WISE-Paris.
02/02/2001
Final end of U.S. breeder research
Decision to shut FFTF at Hanford finalized; EBR-II sodium drained
David Lowry, WISE-Paris, 1 February 2001
31/01/2001
Magrox : BNFL's plutonium
fuel project abandoned
WISE-Paris, 30 January 2001
31/01/2001
Nuclear waste ship banned
from Argentinean waters
WISE-Paris, 30 January 2001
29/01/2001
TEPCO admits referendum could
kill MOX program
WISE-Paris, 29 January 2001
Green Action, Press release, 25 January 2001
19/01/2001
Belgonucleaire hit by quality-control
default suspicion
WISE-Paris, 19 January 2001 (modified 2 February 2001)
Green Action, Press release, 16 January 2001
04/01/2001
Final report of International
MOX Assessment (IMA) is now available on the web
29 December 2000, CNIC/WISE-Paris
Fourth quarter of 2000
22/12/2000
The Cezus affair: A flaw in
the quality control of nuclear fuel
WISE-Paris, 20 December 2000
Download the full
version of the Cezus affair (including annexes) in PDF,14 pages (225
Ko)
28/11/2000
In the series "Reactor Myths"
UK Parliament debate
Official Report, The Hansard, 8 Nov 2000: Column 378
06/11/2000
Jinzaburo Takagi - The Citizen
Scientist is Gone
Jinzaburo Takagi died on 8 October 2000 in Tokyo.
By Mycle Schneider, Director of WISE-Paris, Chief Editor of Plutonium
Investigation, October 2000
26/10/2000
The Belgian Secretary of State
for Energy accuses the nuclear lobby of 'sabotage on the Government's
decision'.
Full press release sent out by the Belgian Secretary of State for
Energy and Sustainable development on 12 October 2000
20/10/2000
Head of EURATOM Safeguards
pulls the alarm over budget cuts
WISE-Paris, 20 October 2000
Third quarter of 2000
22/09/2000
MINATOM minister clears
up some outstanding confusions
Threatens collapse of agreement if Western funding is not forthcoming
By David Lowry
WISE-Paris, 21 September 2000
28/07/2000
Nuclear and renewable energies
Paul Flynn MP, Labour, has submitted a new Early Day Motion [EDM
1018] (non legislative) highlighting the huge subsidy given to BNFL
for its plutonium MOX programm. (submitted 25 July 2000)
28/07/2000
Russian plutonium politics
hit by liability uncertainties
By David Lowry
WISE-Paris, 28 July 2000
19/07/2000
COGEMA "Blackmails" French
Safety Authorities Over Cadarache Issue
Commercial interests versus safety
WISE-Paris, 19 July 2000
Latest version
of WISE-Paris briefing on Cadarache in English as PDF file
as of 21 August 2000
10/07/2000
Largest plutonium inventory
in the world gains 3 tonnes in 1999
UK Department of Trade and Industry limits access to national
plutonium inventory figures.
Written Answers from the House of Commons, Ref. 596W, 13 June 2000
WISE-Paris, 10 July 2000
Second quarter of 2000
28/06/2000
USA/Russia plutonium agreement
David Chaytor, MP, has put down a new "Early Day Motion" (EDM
887) in the UK House of Commons, to call upon the Government not to
support the agreement and work on independent assessment of it
(submitted 22 June 2000)
27/06/2000
Decision to end reprocessing
in Germany but action delayed
Agreement between the Federal Government and the Power Supply
Companies of 14 June 2000. [Excerpt]
English translation by the German Government, 22 June 2000
23/06/2000
UK Government "Concerned" about
the US-Russian MOX Plan
From UK Parliament Question and Answer Session
Tuesday, 20 June 2000
19/06/2000
The UK Minister for the Environment
and La Hague Discharges
WISE-Paris, 19 June 2000
13/06/2000
COGEMA enters plutonium immobilization
cooperation with Australian company
ANSTO Press release, 8 June 2000
WISE-Paris, 13 June 2000
05/06/2000
U.S. - Russia agreement on
weapon-grade plutonium no longer required for defense purposes
WISE-Paris, 5 June 2000
30/05/2000
DOE's decision to dispose of
bomb-grade spent fuel hailed as a major non-proliferation victory
Nuclear Control Institute & Natural Resources Defense Council
Press release, 11 April 2000
WISE-Paris, 30 May 2000
04/05/2000
Plutonium shipping container
fails drop test in the US
WISE-Paris, 4 May 2000
02/05/2000
New WISE-Paris Report Released:
"Recycling of Nuclear Materials - Myths and Reality"
The full report in French -PDF file, 23 p., 266Ko, last modified 5
May 2000:
000505RecyclagePuU.pdf
(in french - 23 p., 266 Ko)
WISE-Paris, 2 May 2000
25/04/2000
The UK Government publishes
BNFL's reprocessing client list
WISE-Paris, 25 April 2000
19/04/2000
Further steps in nuclear openness
The UK Ministry of Defense published the following press release
signalling in particular the release of a report on a historical review
on the UK plutonium production.
14 April 2000
First quarter of 2000
27/03/2000
UK Government Publishes Data
on "Surplus" Weapons Plutonium
Official Report (HANSARD), 14 March 2000, columns 105-106
Surplus Nuclear Material
23/03/2000
Nuclear safety and the future
of BNFL
David Chaytor, MP, has put down a new "Early Day Motion" (EDM
539) in the UK House of Commons. The earlier one, EDM 323, now has
99 signatures. (submitted 15 March 2000)
10/03/2000
British Nuclear Safety Authorities
Admit Pressures to Privatize BNFL Undermine Safety Inspections
WISE-Paris, 10 March 2000
04/03/2000
Belgian Government Questions
the Quality-Control of La Hague Reprocessing Waste
WISE-Paris, 4 March 2000
14/02/2000
Long-term nonproliferation
program for Russia
Factsheet Released by the US DOE on the Plutonium Initiative with
Russia, February 7, 2000
11/02/2000
MITI press statement on meetings
with british authorities : MITI requests now the return of the incriminated
MOX to the UK
Tokyo, 10 February 2000
09/02/2000
Proposal to the British Government
for Pu Immobilisation and Re-Negotiation of THORP Reprocessing Contracts
Green Action's proposal to Anna Walker, Dir. Gal for Energy, DTI released
on 7 February 2000 at MITI press conference in Tokyo
01/02/2000
"Nuclear safety and the need
for plutonium immobilisation alternatives"
An early day motion has been tabled in the UK House of Commons
by 8 Members of Parliament about plutonium immobilisation as an alternative
to MOX. It will be open for MPs to signuntil November 2000.
Motion of the UK House of Commons (submitted 25/01/2000)
01/02/2000
The UK Government was informed
by BNFL as early as 10 September 1999 of potential problems with the
Japanese MOX fuel quality control
Written Answers in the UK House of Commons, 25th January 2000
Fourth quarter of 1999
17/11/1999
The UK does not intend
to return to foreign clients MOX production wastes ; UK Government
Reply dated 11 November 1999 to a Question by MP Llew Smith
WISE-Paris, 17 November 1999
26/10/1999
UK will keep Canadian reprocessing
wastes
Parliamentary question and government answer (dated 5 November
1999)
18/10/99
Criticality accident
at a uranium conversion facility at TOKAI-MURA, JAPAN
WISE-Paris, 18 October 1999
02/10/99
The City of Nepean aims
to prohibit the shipment of MOX through its territory
WISE-Paris, 2 October 1999
Third quarter of 1999
29/09/99
North Bay, CANADA, Passes
Resolution opposing MOX Fuels Shipments
27 September 1999
07/07/1999
Open Letter to Birgitta
Dahl, Speaker of the Swedish Parliament
By Mycle Schneider, Director of WISE-Paris, Paris, 7 July 1999
Second quarter of 1999
28/06/1999
Largest plutonium inventory
in the world gains 9 tonnes in 1998
WISE-Paris, 28 June 1999
07/06/1999
International Appeal by
' Alternative Nobel ' Prizewinners for the Release of MORDECHAI VANUNU
Text of a RESOLUTION adopted by acclamation at a meeting celebrating
the 20th Anniversary of the RIGHT
LIVELIHOOD AWARD (Alternative Nobel Prize) in Salzburg, Austria,
1 June 1999
20/05/1999
Stunning knowledge level
of UK Minister on MOX shipment implications
From a question and answer session in the House of Commons on
the issue of planned MOX shipments from Europe to Japan on 18 May
1999
22/04/1999
UK MPs oppose potential
EBRD financing for K2/R4
WISE-Paris, 22 April 1999
First quarter of 1999
26/03/1999
Conclusions on reprocessing,
plutonium and MOX
From the UK House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee
Report published, 24 March 1999
22/03/1999
Nuclear terrorism and the
international transport of plutonium
WISE-Paris, 22 March 1999
01/03/1999
Official Report (Hansard,
column 570) - TRADE AND INDUSTRY
Minister's declaration on the shipment of MOX from Europe to Japan
27/01/1999
Statement of German Chancellor
Gerhard Schröder after the first round of the nuclear consensus
talks, transmitted by the Press Office of the Chancellor on 26 January
1999
Translated by WISE-Paris, 27 January 1999
22/01/1999
Future Shipments of MOX
from the UK to Japan
WISE-Paris, 22 January 1999
21/01/1999
Belgium: Scheduled End to Reprocessing and to MOX Use
WISE-Paris, 21 January 1999
Year 1998
14/12/1998
IPPNW - Nobel Prize Winner
in 1985 -Requests that Reprocessing Be Put to an End and Nuclear Power
Plants Be Phased Out By the End of Their Current License Periods At
Latest
WISE-Paris, 14 December 1998
29/10/1998
COGEMA is Storing Illegally
More than 100,000 m3 of Foreign Radioactive Waste on the French Territory
WISE-Paris, 29 October 1998
October 1998
Reprocessing Waste Generated
at La Hague, per Country
(cubic meters, as of 1 March 1998)
WISE-Paris, October 1998
October 1998
The Phase Out of Nuclear
Power
Excerpt of the Coalition Agreement between the Social Democratic
Party of Germany (SPD) and the Green Party (Bündnis90/Die GRüNEN),
Bonn, 20 October 1998
WISE-Paris, October 1998
07/10/1998
EDF's Interim Storage Evaluation
Team
WISE-Paris, 7 October 1998
01/10/1998
"Controlled" Sodium Fire
at Cadarache
WISE-Paris, 1 October 1998
September 1998
The Phenix Court Case Back
on Lobby Track?
WISE-Paris, September 1998
Année 1998
Energy in France 2010
-2020
WISE-Paris
Année 1998
Four More French PWRs
Licensed for MOX Use
WISE-Paris