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COGEMA VIOLATING RADIOACTIVE DISCHARGE LICENSE - GREENPEACE CHARGES
18 November 1998
Cogema's plutonium reprocessing plant at La Hague, in Normandy,
is frequently breaching its license limits for radioactive discharges
into the air, Greenpeace charged today, following aerial sampling
around the plant during the past three weeks.
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NEW DATA ON AERIAL DISCHARGES REVEAL HIGH LEVELS OF RADIOACTIVE
CARBON CONTAMINATION AROUND THE FRENCH REPROCESSING PLANT
12 November 1998
Greenpeace released sample data for radioactive
Carbon-14 contamination around the Cogema reprocessing plant at
La Hague that show worrying levels of this significant isotope.
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LA HAGUE RADIOACTIVE AIR 90,000 TIMES HIGHER THAN BACKGROUND
- GREENPEACE RELEASES FIRST SAMPLE RESULTS
9 November 1998
Greenpeace announced that it had discovered
high levels of aerial contamination in the surroundings of Cogema's
plutonium reprocessing facility.
Greenpeace sampled the air at an altitude of between 60 and 120
metres and up to 1km from the plant's main discharge stacks. These
samples were analysed by the University of Gent, Belgium, and
were found to contain over 90,000 Bq/m3 of the radioactive noble
gas Krypton-85 (Kr-85). This value contrasts sharply with the
world average radioactivity in air of between 1-2 Bq/m3. In a
computer
model developed by NOAA (Air Resources Lab.) Greenpeace showed
that Cogema's aerial discharges contaminate the air throughout
most of Western Europe, eventually this air moves around the planet.
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