Contaminating the Sea

discreetly postpones its commitment to reduce radioactive discharges at sea
from 2020 to 2050. Following the Cascais meeting of the OSPAR Convention
for the Protection of the North-East Atlantic, which took place on October
1, the participating ministers discreetly postponed until 2050 the
commitment made in 1998 in Sintra to reduce radioactive discharges into the
sea to levels close to zero by 2020. Once again, international commitments
to the environment are being disregarded. This does not bode well for the
upcoming COP26 in Glasgow. France is the first beneficiary of this 30-year
postponement because, with its reprocessing plant at La Hague, it has the
highest radioactive discharges to the sea in Europe. And these discharges
are not decreasing, as shown by the results of the citizen monitoring of
radioactivity in the environment carried out by ACRO for over 25 years.

 ACRO 19th Oct 2021

 https://www.acro.eu.org/the-ospar-convention-for-the-protection-of-the-north-east-atlantic-discreetly-postpones-its-commitment-to-reduce-radioactive-discharges-at-sea-from-2020-to-2050/

A  notable quote!

“It is important to note that tritium (radioactive hydrogen) discharges have risen sharply since the Sintra declaration. Orano’s La Hague plant has the highest discharges in the world, according to the Japanese government’s assessment: the plant discharges every 30 days what Japan is about to discharge in 30 years in Fukushima!”