Laptop Battery An Argentine judge has banned Southern California Edison from shipping a decommissioned nuclear reactor from San Onofre within 200 miles of his nation's coast, adding a new and risky complication to hauling the atomic refuse to a disposal site.
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Thinkpad The ruling, the latest in a series of setbacks for the utility, could force the shipment into more treacherous waters as it passes Cape Horn, the tip of South America known for its severe weather.
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Microsoft Jorge Pfleger, a federal judge in Argentina, issued the order Tuesday stating that the 668-ton shipment must stay clear of the country's ports and an exclusive economic zone, which is designed to protect marine resources up to 200 miles offshore.
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Laptop Computers Should Edison violate the order, Argentine officials say, the load will be intercepted by the military and escorted out of the nation's territorial waters.
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Laptop Computer "If under any circumstance a ship of this type enters the economic exclusion zone, it would be violating specific orders of the Argentine justice system," said Jorge Luis Miquelarena, a provincial prosecutor in the state of Chubut who sought the order.
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Desktop Computer Using two oceangoing tugs and a barge, Edison intends to take the reactor on a plodding 11,000-mile voyage from the Camp Pendleton Marine base in northern San Diego County to a burial site in Barnwell, S.C.
Notebooks Utility officials said the load would travel more than 200 miles off South America but come into safer waters near the 12-mile international limit around Cape Horn. Passing farther out increases the risk of icebergs, high seas and severe winds.
Lenovo The company has until March to begin the 90-day trip. Edison is still trying to arrange for a cargo terminal in the Port of Charleston to accept the reactor.
Hard Drive The decision is the latest snarl in the difficult and yearlong effort to dispose of the old reactor. The load is considered too large to pass through the Panama Canal. It is too big to ship very far by rail, and until recently, the reactor had been too much of a security risk to enter the Port of Charleston.
Travelstar Ray Golden, an Edison spokesman, said the Argentine court had not notified the utility about the order. He declined to comment on the situation, except to say that "all the necessary approvals and permitting for an international shipment have been obtained."
Gateway Edison has been cooperating with the U.S. State Department in making arrangements for the voyage. In December, the Department of Transportation approved the move.
Laptop Parts Greenpeace International praised Pfleger's order, saying it was a key step in protecting the offshore environment.
Software "Our fear, first, is for fishing and other activities, which would come to a complete stop in case of an accident," said Juan Carlos Villalonga, a Greenpeace official in Argentina. "This is the first thing you would notice before the impact on health and the environment, which would be long-term."
Hard Drives Villalonga said the organization and Taller Ecologista, another environmental group, petitioned the court last week in hopes of obtaining an injunction against the shipment.
Electronics Greenpeace contends that Edison has not provided Argentine authorities with a plan for recovering the reactor in case it is lost in waters deeper than 91 meters, roughly 300 feet.
Canon Edison and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission maintain that the reactor is low-level nuclear waste and encased in a concrete coffin. It emits virtually no detectable radiation and poses no health threat, they say.
Desktop Pc In his ruling, Pfleger, who sits in the coastal city of Rawson, invoked a treaty, signed by Argentina and other nations, that gives countries the power to control and prohibit shipments of hazardous materials and toxic waste through their territorial waters. The treaty is known as the Basel Convention on the Control of Trans-Boundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal.
Desktop Computers Argentina, which has a nuclear power industry of its own, also has a 200-mile exclusive economic zone that it considers part of its sovereign waters.
Think Pad Professor Jon Van Dyke, who teaches international and ocean law at the University of Hawaii law school, said exclusive economic zones have been used by countries in Latin America and elsewhere to secure resources such as fishing grounds and oil.
Repair Van Dyke said that today some of these nations are asserting broader powers over these areas to protect the ocean environment and to restrict shipments of hazardous material.
Data Recovery "Argentina, Chile and Brazil are increasingly concerned about nuclear shipments. Chile now requires permission for these shipments to come within 200 miles of its coast," said Van Dyke, who has advised Pacific island nations, Greenpeace, and other organizations about the dumping and shipment of nuclear materials.
Cisco In 1996, the Chilean navy challenged a British cargo ship carrying nuclear materials bound for Japan and forced the vessel out of its exclusive economic zone.
Keyboard "There are political concerns about this in Chile and Argentina. Edison is choosing to ignore those concerns," said Tom Clements, a senior advisor for Greenpeace's nuclear campaign.
Monitor According to a news report from Chile on Thursday, a member of that country's legislature, Deputy Alejandro Navarro, has become concerned about Edison's shipment and plans to put in at Chilean ports in case of an emergency. Navarro said he wants to meet with Chile's ministers of defense and foreign affairs to discuss the matter.
Desktop By Dan Weikel and Hector Tobar
Los Angeles Times - 1/16/2004
Topic: Nuclear
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