Permalink: https://media.greenpeace.org/archive/Nuclear-Action-at-the-Gosgen-Nuclear-Power-Plant-27MZIFLQ5ZSI.htmlConceptually similarNuclear Action against Transport from Nuclear Power Plant GösgenGP01VFSCompleted★★★★Nuclear Action against Transport from Nuclear Power Plant GösgenGP01VFWCompleted★★★★Nuclear Action against Transport from Nuclear Power Plant GösgenGP0IQVCompleted★★★★Nuclear Action against Transport from Nuclear Power Plant GösgenGP01VFTCompleted★★★★Nuclear Action against Transport from Nuclear Power Plant GösgenGP01VFRCompleted★★★★Nuclear Action against Transport from Nuclear Power Plant GösgenGP01VFUCompleted★★★★Nuclear Action against Transport from Nuclear Power Plant GösgenGP01VFVCompleted★★★★Nuclear Action at the Gösgen Nuclear Power PlantGP01UHYCompleted★★★★Nuclear Action at the Gösgen Nuclear Power PlantGP01UHZCompleted★★★★View AllGP01UI1Nuclear Action at the Gösgen Nuclear Power PlantAn activist next to a stop sign while occupying the railway at the Nuclear Power Plant Gösgen. With this action Greenpeace calls on the authorities and nuclear power station management to stop the nuclear waste transports to the French and British reprocessing plants immediately.In original language:Atom Aktion bei AKW GösgenHeute morgen um 7 Uhr setzten rund ein Dutzend Greenpeace-AktivistInnen eine anderthalb Tonnen schwere Eisenbox auf das Werksgeleise beim AKW Gösgen, vier ketteten sich anschliessend an das Hindernis. Mit dieser Aktion fordert Greenpeace Behörden und AKW-Betreiber auf, die Atommülltransporte in die französischen und britischen Wiederaufarbeitungsanlagen sofort zu unterbinden. Die Umweltorganisation sieht sich zu dieser Massnahme gezwungen, nachdem AKW-Betreiber und Aufsichtbehörden trotz eindeutiger Rechtslage untätig geblieben sind: Durch die Verarbeitung von Schweizer Atommüll wird das Meer weiträumig verseucht, was in der Schweiz unter Strafe steht. Zudem wird die Menge des Atommülls, der in die Schweiz zurücktransportiert und gelagert werden muss, vervielfacht.Locations:Europe, East Europe, Alpine Countries-SwitzerlandDate:31 Aug, 1999Credit:© Greenpeace / Ex-Press / David AdairMaximum size:3293px X 2256pxRestrictions:Images ok for use in all Greenpeace campaigns, products and brochures. NOT FOR ADVERTISING OR COMMERCIAL USE.Keywords:Actions and protests-Activists-Chaining actions-Day-KWCI (GPI)-Nuclear (campaign title)-Nuclear waste transports-Occupation actions-Outdoors-PortraitsShoot:Nuclear Action Activist Chained on Railway of Nuclear Power Plant in Gösgen SwitzerlandAt 7 clock this morning a dozen Greenpeace activists placed a box of iron with a weight of one and a half ton on the rails of the Nuclear Power Plant Gösgen, four activists then chained themselves to the box. With this action Greenpeace calls on the authorities and nuclear power station management to stop the nuclear waste transports to the French and British reprocessing plants immediately. The nuclear power station operators and authorities have failed to act despite the clear law: because of the processing of Swiss nuclear waste, the sea is being polluted, and this is a crime in Switzerland. In addition, the amount of nuclear waste that has to be transported back to Switzerland and stored there will be multiplied. In recent months and years Greenpeace has virtually exhausted all legal means to stop the nuclear transports. But Greenpeace has not received a response to any of their complaints. Also residents from the reprocessing plants at Sellafield and La Hague have filed complaints at the Federal attorney, because their health is at risk because of the Swiss nuclear waste. At La Hague, every year 230 million litres of radioactive waste water is dumped into the sea at Sellafield. These incredible amounts of radioactivity that are released into the environment day after day have serious consequences for the people: children suffer significantly more from leukemia and thyroid problems. Even in house dust around Sellafield plutonium is present, the locally produced spinach is contaminated with 8000 becquerel / kg, the fish are contaminated, and last year even 1500 doves had to be killed, cast in concrete and disposed of as nuclear waste is. The Swiss authorities, however, held it unnecessary to prohibit the criminal release of radioactivity of the Swiss nuclear waste.