Overwhelming popular support for proposed ban on nuclear discharges

  • 25/06/2000

Eight out of ten people who live in the European countries which have spent nuclear fuel reprocessing contracts with Sellafield (United Kingdom) or La Hague (France) say they want the discharges of radioactive waste into the sea to be stopped and prohibited, according to a series of opinion polls commissioned by Greenpeace. These opinion polls were released in Copenhagen on the eve of the opening of the annual meeting of the OSPAR Commission, at which a proposal tabled by Denmark calls for an immediate prohibition of nuclear reprocessing.