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True Crimes. The Story of Radioactive Waste Disposal

AuthorGreenpeace UK
Date*
Classification 6.01.5.53/20 (WASTE - SEA BED DISPOSAL)
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From the publication:

Radioactive Waste Dumping at Sea
The London Convention: From the Dumping Regime to the Anti-Dumping Regime?

(Introduction)
At their 15th Consultative Meeting, in November 1992, the Parties to the
Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and
Other Matter (1972), commonly known until then as the London Dumping
Convention (LDC), decided to change their name to London Convention 1972
(LC72). In doing so, they intended to show to the international community that,
after the UNCED Earth Summit, time had come to move away from sea dumping,
and to implement a truly precautionary approach.

Yet, even under the London Convention, the dumping at sea of wastes as hazardous
as Intermediate and low radioactive wastes is still not legally banned. The dumping
of radioactive wastes at sea has been the centre of one of the longest standing
international political and legal environmental controversies in the 1970s, 1980s
and beyond, which is expected to culminate with the process of amendment of the
London Convention between July 1993 and November 1994. Although there are
numerous reasons to believe that this practice in not in line with current trends and
state-of-the-art contemporary environmental policy, a significant number of powerful
countries still sees with reluctance the prospect of a worldwide ban on the dumping
of radioactive wastes at sea.

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