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Nuclear transports involve risks to human health and the environment.
Even if you don't live near
a nuclear reactor, you may be near a transport route without even
knowing it.
Waste from Sydney’s Lucas Heights reactor is trucked along suburban streets. Australia sends spent nuclear fuel rods (high level waste) to and from France in ordinary cargo ships. One cask of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel elements contains about the same amount of radiation as released by the Chernobyl nuclear accident of 1986. Transports are also potential targets for terrorist attacks or the theft of fissile materials.
The hazards of nuclear transport have caused many communities, environmentalists and politicians around the world to protest against this practice.
Waste from Sydney’s Lucas Heights reactor is trucked along suburban streets. Australia sends spent nuclear fuel rods (high level waste) to and from France in ordinary cargo ships. One cask of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel elements contains about the same amount of radiation as released by the Chernobyl nuclear accident of 1986. Transports are also potential targets for terrorist attacks or the theft of fissile materials.
The hazards of nuclear transport have caused many communities, environmentalists and politicians around the world to protest against this practice.
