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Sellafield – Breaching international treaty targets on radioactive marine pollution (2011)

Auteur	CORE
	6-01-5-52-25.pdf
Datum	februari 2011
Classificatie	6.01.5.52/25 (AFVAL - DUMPEN IN ZEE)
Opmerking	Word document
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Introduction.

This report by CORE [Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment] assesses
claims that the UK is on course to meet the reduction in radioactive discharges
agreed to at the 1998 Ministerial meeting of the Oslo and Paris (OSPAR) Commission
(1). At that meeting Ministers signed up to OSPAR’s Radioactive Substances Strategy
(RSS) thereby agreeing a strategy to prevent the contamination of the North-East
Atlantic marine environment from radioactive pollution. The overall objective of
the RSS relates to the reduction of radioactive discharge levels with the objective:

‘To prevent pollution of the maritime area, as defined under the Convention, from
ionising radiation, through progressive and substantial reductions of discharges
(emphasis added), emissions and losses of radioactive substances. The ultimate aim
is to achieve concentrations in the environment near background values for naturally
occurring radioactive substances and close to zero for artificial radioactive
substances’.