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Catherine Caufield
Britain suffered a a double setback at last week’s meeting of the London Dumping Convention.
On Thursday delegates approved a resolution calling for a two-year ban on dumping radioactive wastes in the sea.
And the following day Britain lost its battle to impose the burden of scientific proof on those who oppose radioactive dumping.
The two-year moratorium is not binding, and Britain, which is responsible for 90 per cent of all radioactive waste dumped at sea, has already said that it will not comply with the ban.
The moratorium was a compromise and suggested by Spain, off whose coast Britain dumps its waste.
Originally two Pacific island countries Kiribati and Nauru, who fear Japan’s plans to dispose of radioactive waste near their shores and tabled a binding amendment adding radioactive waste to the convention’s annex of banned substances. The Nordic countries suggested instead a phase-out of such dumping by 1990.
But delegates decided to opt for a scientific review of all amendments to the annex .
They voted by 19 to 6 in favour of a two year moratorium, during which time a scientific committee will “review the scientific and technical considerations relevant to the proposed amendments”. The committee’s findings will be presented in 1985.
Last week’s meeting left the crucial question of burden of proof open ” a fact which may have shifted the odds in favour of the would-be banners.
Britain would have liked the scientific committee to be asked to present clear evidence that radioactive dumping is damaging before it could recommend a ban. The nations who oppose dumping want proof that it is not harmful. Now the delegates’ meeting in 1985 will be free to make up its own mind.
The chances are that Britain will have to find a new place to dump waste by the end of the decade. o Britain will dump 50 per cent more radioactive waste this year than last.
The wastes include leftovers from the reprocessing of spent fuel from nuclear power plants, from isotope production and from work at research establishments.
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