I have been blogging about Russian nuclear waste issues recently. For decades, European countries routinely shipped waste to Russia for disposal in blatant disregard for Russian Law. Their handling of internal nuclear waste and foreign wastes have resulted in contamination of thousands of square miles, disruption in the lives of hundreds of thousands of citizens and damage to the health of thousands.
In December of 2005, Greenpeace activists occupied a loading dock and 2 loading cranes at the port of Le Havre, France. They were protesting the loading of four hundred and fifty containers of radioactive waste on a ship bound for Russia. They were protesting the thirty year arrangement between European nations and the Russian Federation to ship nuclear waste to Russia for disposal.
Yesterday, I blogged about illegal dumping of nuclear waste in the Arctic Sea by the Soviet Union and Russia. The Soviet Union and Russia also dumped nuclear waste in the Sea of Japan.
