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Nuclear Meltdown

Boats set sail from Auckland to join the flotilla that will protest British Nuclear Fuels plutonium shipment transport through the Pacific ocean. Enlarge Image

Opponents of nuclear transport set sail for rough weather and high seas vigil

What would possess a comfortably retired grandfather, a former rock musician, a chimney sweep and a tour guide to set out in small boats in some of the roughest waters in the world? What can unite the Pacific island nation of Fiji with the government of Chile and the politicians of Ireland?

The flotilla boat Tiama heading out to intercept the nuclear cargo freighters Enlarge Image

Skippers' account of Nuclear Free Seas flotilla's Nuclear titanics encounter

"The two plutonium ships obviously had something to hide that could not bear the light of day..." Henk, the Skipper of the Tiama gives a first hand account about how a protest flotilla of 10 small yachts spread across 80 miles of ocean had BNFL running scared.

Norman Askew, Chief Executive of BNFL, is wanted for crimes against the planet. Enlarge Image

BNFL is wanted for crimes against the planet and the people of Sellafield

Norman Askew, chief executive of British Nuclear Fuels has a skewed perspective. He is "delighted" by nuclear power expansion, even as people living around the Sellafield nuclear plant die from unusually high rates of cancer. Askew and government owned British Nuclear Fuels are also violating countries national sovereignty around the world as they ship plutonium through national waters against countries’ permissions. The warrant for their arrest is long overdue.

Jim Corr of Irish pop group the Corrs, takes the helm of a Greenpeace inflatable whilst lending his support to the nuclear-free seas flotilla. Enlarge Image

Sailing for our nuclear free future

As two British nuclear freighters near the Irish Sea with their deadly cargo of weapons-usable plutonium, a flotilla of small sailboats are getting into position to peacefully protest their passage.

Surrounded by Japanese police and coast guards Greenpeace inflatables protest beneath kites from the Mv Arctic Sunrise Enlarge Image

Pathway away from destruction

One of the most dangerous and unnecessary shipments ever to have taken place reached journey’s end on September 17th 2002 when it docked in the UK port of Barrow. The effect that this shipment’s 18,000 mile, 75-day passage, through some of the world’s heaviest seas had on the governments and peoples of en-route nations, and those who want to protect the fragile marine environment through which it sailed, could be likened to the running of a knife through an open wound.

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