The Xunta, through the Xeral Environmental Directorate, has requested the Nuclear Safety Council, under government, information on the French oceanographic expedition that, he points out, “would have located more than a thousand drums with radioactive waste in seabed in front of the Galician coast.”
In a letter sent to the Secretary General of the Nuclear Safety Council, the Xeral Director of Environmental Quality, María José Echevarría, requests information from this department in the framework of the functions of the Xunta “in terms of waste within the Autonomous Community of Galicia”.
It also recalls that the regulations place the Nuclear Safety Council as the competent agency in nuclear safety and radiological protection, including the supervision and control of radioactive waste.
In this context, he points out that, with the “sole objective of staying informed”, the autonomous administration would appreciate that they are transferred if from that organism some type of technical or environmental follow -up is being carried out in relation to these findings. Precisely, they publish that the French oceanographic ship The Atalante He would have located the first thousand barrels with radioactive remains against Galicia.
Miranda (BNG) asks for explanations to the European Commission
Also on this matter, in a statement, the Eurodiputada of BNG Ana Miranda explains that the European Commission has been re -directed again to be interested in radioactive waste linked to spills off the Galician coast between 1940 and 1985.
“As a Eurodiputada of the BNG I have addressed the European Commission today to remind him that he did not do his work regarding the investigation of the radioactive waste of the Atlantic fossa,” he says. Ana Miranda explains that it is the fourth question that directs the CE on this matter, in which it claims a European investigation. “It cannot be that Galicia received European garbage and that, today, the EU did not take any measure,” he emphasizes.
Ana Miranda says that the European Commission itself “acknowledged the existence of nuclear waste against the coast of Galicia” and indicated that “it lacks updated studies sorbe its impact”, in addition to “repeatedly postponing the surveillance of marine radioactivity in the waters of Galicia.” He also asks the European Commission for his forecasts and if he will carry out his own study on the state of the radioactive remains.
The government ensures that it is “in permanent contact” with the expedition
The Government delegate in Galicia, Pedro Blanco, emphasizes that the central executive remains “in permanent contact” with the French expedition looking for radioactive drums against the coast of Galicia, in what he values as a “timely” investigation. “We are going to try to give them a solution,” he says about this waste.
To questions from the press this Friday in Santiago, Blanco explained that this expedition is followed so that he “informs” of his findings, “how many” drums there are and “what kind”. It will also be addressed “what will be the solution that can occur.”
Remember that these drums threw themselves for decades in the twentieth century, when “consciousness was probably another, completely different.” “The Government of Spain of course worries him,” he made clear.
Thus, he explains that the government is “pending” the results of the reports of this investigation, so that it will transfer the results to the affected communities “with absolute transparency, as always, and with absolute concern for the marine half.”
He states that the drums are “located”, so you have to “see exactly what the state they are in, because that is fundamental”, in addition to their “consequences” for pollution. Pedro Blanco stresses that the government “is prepared, has worried and is pending” of these results.
After the expedition has located the first 1,000 radioactive drums, the Xunta, through the Environmental Quality Xeral Directorate, has requested the Nuclear Safety Council, under government, information.
