Thirty Greenpeace activists blocked the entrance of the Directorate General in The Hague by chaining themselves around four sealed drums full of radioactive sand from the beaches around Sellafield. Blocking the entrance to the Directorate General. The protest was aimed to highlight the fact that the Netherlands send radioactive waste from Dodewaard to Sellafield and therefore bear co-responsibility for the enormous sea and land pollution. A twenty meter wide banner was also hung in protest at the opening of THORP. (Annual Review 1993-1994 page18)