Conclusion

During the 40-year period, Britain and France have obstinately dumped radioactive waste into the Atlantic Ocean and the Irish and North Seas. During the 1990's radioactive discharges from the French and British reprocessing plants have risen dramatically. Because this contamination poses immediate risks to people throughout Europe, concerted national and international action must be taken to halt its release.

WHAT YOU CAN DO TO STOP THE RADIOACTIVE DISCHARGES:

1. The citizens of all OSPAR nations should write or call there Environmental Ministers to demand their support for an OSPAR decision prohibiting radioactive discharges immediately.

2. The governments and electric utilities of Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland have all signed contracts with reprocessing facilities; therefore, these governments are complicit in the spread of radioactive contamination.

Citizens of these countries should demand that their governments cancel all reprocessing contracts, thus bringing reprocessing and its radioactive discharges to an end.