DSIN
The Direction de la Sûreté des Installations Nucléaires
(DSIN) is the French nuclear installations safety authority. It is answerable
to both the Ministry for Industry and the Ministry for the Environment.
DSIN took over responsibility of the safety of nuclear transports on 12
June 1997.
99, rue de Grenelle - 75 353 Paris Cedex 07 - France
Tel: +33 (0)1 43 19 39 61
Fax: +33 (0)1 43 19 47 80
IPSN
The Institut de Protection et de Sûreté nucléaire
(IPSN) is a CEA institute concerned with the safety and security of nuclear
facilities. A large share of IPSN research is carried out for DSIN. IPSN
has been informed of the contamination problem by the nuclear industry
in 1992-93 but it kept the story secret.
BP 6 - 92 265 Fontenay-aux-Roses Cedex - France
Tel: +33 (0)1 46 54 76 76
Fax: +33 (0)1 46 54 84 51
OPRI
OPRI is the radiological protection authority. As such it receives measurements
taken by the industry and performs other measurements on site itself.
It is OPRI which assesses the doses to the public, and to industry and
railway workers. office de protection contre les rayonnements ionisants
Service communication 31, rue de l'Ecluse - 78 110 Le Vésinet
- France
Tel: +33 (0)1 30 15 52 05
Fax: +33 (0)1 39 76 08 96
SNCF
Direction du Fret The SNCF is the national railway company, which
carries out the railway transports from the nuclear power plants to Valognes
and back.
Service communication/presse 10, place de Budapest -75 436 Paris Cedex
09 France Tel: +33 (0)1 53 25 78 93
Fax: +33 (0)1 53 25 78 98
CHSCT
CHST de l'Unité Opérationnelle du Cotentin The local
Health and Security Council of the railway company SNCF took the decision
to stop the train transports, using its "right to alert".
CHSCT de l'Unité Opérationnelle du Cotentin : Philippe
Lesoif (Secretary of the CHSCT)
Gare SNCF - Avenue Jean-FranŤois Millet 50 000 Cherbourg - France
Tel: +33 (0)2 33 44 18 74
Fax: +33 (0)2 33 44 54 01
Gendarmerie
(Brigade, motorisée)
The motorbike squad accompanies the truck shipments between Valognes and
La Hague.
Avenue du Quesnay - 50 700 Valognes - France
Tel: +33 (0)2 33 95 09 82
CSPI
La Hague
The Information Commission for the La Hague reprocessing plant (Commission
spéciale et permanente d'information près de l'établissement
de La Hague, CSPI) is an intermediary commission between the plant operator
and the public. Centre d'affaires atlantiques -
27, rue Dom Pédro 50 100 Cherbourg - France
Tel: +33 (0)2 33 23 46 00
Fax: +33 (0)2 33 23 46 09
Greenpeace
Cherbourg
Laurent Bonnemain and Yannick Rousselet have an excellent knowledge of
the local conditions and assisted us with the investigation.
3, rue Louis-Aragon - 53 130 Octeville - France
Tel/Fax: +33 (0)2 33 93 28 00
Les
Méres en colère
Started in 1997, the group of "angry mothers" was one of the first to
condemn the waste transport scandal.
19, La Bordette - 50 840 Fermanville - France
Tel: +33 (0)2 33 44 52 51
Fax: +33 (0)2 33 44 16 15
BMU
The German Environment Minister Angela Merkel is reponsible for nuclear
safety.
Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit
Kennedyallee 5 - 53175 Bonn - Germany
Tel: +49 (0) 228 305 2010
Fax: +49 (0) 228 305 3225
WDR-ARD
Peter Winterberg, with the foreign service of WDR, the largest of the
German Public Television Broadcasting company ARD, who had already co-authored
documentaries with Mycle Schneider, commissioned the investigation and
co-authored the TV documentaries on the contaminated shipments.
Appellhofplatz 1 - Postfach 10 19 50 - 50 600 Köln - Germany
Tel: +49 (0)221 220 21 34
Fax: +49 (0)221 220 84 84
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