Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-09-03-Speech-2-100"
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"en.20020903.5.2-100"2
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". – The question of safety of nuclear fuel shipments is an urgent one. At this very moment two shipments of nuclear fuel which were rejected by Japan because of the falsification of safety data by BNFL are approaching the shores of Europe, and will enter the narrow confines of the Irish Sea.
The movement of this dangerous cargo at this time is spitting in the face of the victims of September 11. These ships are not capable of withstanding a terrorist attack, and they are not capable withstanding a fire. They are an invitation to terrorists to hijack material for the making of a nuclear bomb.
We now have the ludicrous situation of the nuclear industry shopping dangerous radioactive material around the planet. The convention should not be seen as giving a green light to the nuclear industry for such trafficking of deadly material.
I urge the Irish Government to take action under the Convention to stop these shipments. The Convention recognises that any State has the right to ban imports into its territory of foreign spent fuel and radioactive waste. This should also apply to the coast waters of the Irish Sea which are already dangerously polluted with radioactive waste."@en1
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