Permalink: https://media.greenpeace.org/archive/Nuclear-Action-at-Covra-in-Vlissingen--27MZIFLTY4KL.htmlConceptually similarNuclear Action at Covra in Vlissingen GP01LLUCompleted★★★★★★Nuclear Action at Covra in Vlissingen GP01LM3Completed★★★★Nuclear Action at Covra in Vlissingen GP01LLWCompleted★★★★★★Nuclear Action at Covra in Vlissingen GP01LLXCompleted★★★★Nuclear Action at Covra in Vlissingen GP01LLYCompleted★★★★Nuclear Action at Covra in Vlissingen GP01LLZCompleted★★★★★★Nuclear Action Fake Bomb at Covra in Vlissingen GP01LE4Completed★★★★Nuclear Action Fake Bomb at Covra in Vlissingen GP01LE3Completed★★★★Nuclear Action Fake Bomb at Covra in Vlissingen GP01LE2Completed★★★★View AllGP01LM4Nuclear Action at Covra in Vlissingen Greenpeace activists climb the storage building for high level radioactive waste HABOG in Vlissingen. The police stops their action.In original language:Nucleaire Actie bij Covra in Vlissingen Greenpeace actievoerders beklimmen het opslaggebouw voor hoogradioactief afval HABOG in Vlissingen. De politie stopt hun actie.Locations:Europe, West Europe-Netherlands-VlissingenDate:29 Sep, 2004Credit:© Greenpeace / Sjoerd van DeldenMaximum size:3000px X 1999pxKeywords:Actions and protests-Chimneys-Climate (campaign title)-Climbing actions-Day-Energy-Greenpeace activists-KWCI (GPI)-Nuclear (campaign title)-Nuclear waste-Outdoors-Police-PropsShoot:Nuclear Action at Covra in Vlissingen the NetherlandsGreenpeace activists climb the storage building for high level radioactive waste HABOG in Vlissingen. They hang a huge banner reading 'Kernafval: 240.000 jaar radioactief', which translates to English as 'Nuclear waste: 240,000 years radioactive'. Today the first transport of high level radioactive waste takes place. The nuclear waste from the nuclear power plant Borssele will be transported from La Hague in France to Covra in Vlissingen. Covra (Central Organization for Radioactive Waste) is owner of HABOG and the nuclear power plant Borssele. The transport that returns today from France will be the first of at least seven transports with high level radioactive waste. Before the nuclear waste from Borssele can be stored, it has to be transported to La Hague in France to reprocess the waste. After returning in the Netherlands the waste will be stored at Covra for one hundred years and what will happen next is still uncertain. The nuclear reprocessing is disastrous for the environment and proliferation. Despite the pollution and international treaties that commit the Netherlands to store nuclear waste immediately, Borssele continues this polluting process. Greenpeace demands from the government to stop with nuclear energy and to invest in sustainable energy like sun, wind and biomass.
