Greenpeace Stages Protest Outside Romanian Nuclear Plant
Posted on: Tuesday, 16 August 2005, 18:00 CDT
Text of report in English by Romanian news agency Rompres
Cernavoda, 16 August: Several Greenpeace boats, with 35 members aboard, entered the Danube-Black Sea canal, on Monday, 15 August, and stopped in front of the Cernavoda nuclear power plant, showing banners asking for investments in the nuclear plant to be stopped, the Nine O'Clock daily reads on Tuesday, 16 August.
Several boats carrying a banner reading "Cernavoda: 100,000 years of nuclear waste" were posted in front of the nuclear power station, a Greenpeace release says.
On the other hand, a Cernavoda police official said that Greenpeace activists did not make it to the nuclear power station, as they were stopped and fined for using the canal without official approval. "They asked for our approval to organize a photo exhibition, on the fight against the nuclear power use. Without any approval, they entered the canal and will be fined," the daily reads.
Through this protest, Greenpeace asked that investments in Cernavoda nuclear power be stopped. They claim the Romanian government should pay more attention to power efficiency and to regenerating power, the organization members say.
"Romania is using 50 per cent more power and produces almost five times more carbon dioxide than the European average," Jurien Westerhof, the campaign coordinator for Greenpeace said.
Ecologists claim Romania has not solved the problem of the nuclear waste's storage. "Ninety tons of nuclear waste are now being produced at Cernavoda every year. After the second nuclear reactor starts working, the carbon dioxide quantity will double. The extremely dangerous radioactive waste is stored in the nuclear power station and no one knows what will happen to it in the following 100,000 years. Two hundred kilograms of plutonium result every year from the waste and this is enough to produce 40 bombs," the source writes.
The Romanian Greenpeace activists started last Wednesday [10 August], in Bucharest, a public campaign aimed to inform the population about the dangers of using nuclear power, while in Belene, Bulgaria, another ecologist team protested against the building of a nuclear power station in Belene. They tied a banner to one of the buildings of Belene nuclear power aggregate, asking for the construction's immediate ceasing.
Greenpeace started in August a European campaign against nuclear power. An organization boat began a tour called "Energy revolution tour" on the Danube, aimed to draw people's attention to the dangers resulting from the use of nuclear power, the Nine O'Clock says.
Source: BBC Monitoring European
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