Protest over nuclear waste

Bad reaction: Greenpeace activists holding a placard as a ship (top left) transporting reprocessed nuclear waste arrives at Port Kembla in New South Wales. — AFP

SYDNEY: Anti-nuclear protesters in rubber dinghies and water police shadowed a vessel carrying a shipment of reprocessed nuclear waste as it docked on Saturday at an Australian port after a two-month voyage from France.

Environment group Greenpeace questioned the safety of transporting the 25 tonnes of waste, which originally came from an Australian reactor producing radioactive isotopes for industrial and medical uses and was sent overseas for treatment.