DVOR, March 29 (Hina) - Participants in Croatia's first round-table debate on locating a nuclear waste disposal site at Trgovska gora concluded in Dvor on Saturday Croatia "does not need a low- and medium-level radioactive waste
disposal site".
DVOR, March 29 (Hina) - Participants in Croatia's first round-table
debate on locating a nuclear waste disposal site at Trgovska gora
concluded in Dvor on Saturday Croatia "does not need a low- and
medium-level radioactive waste disposal site". #L#
They called for revising Croatia's Zoning Programme and excluding
Trgovska gora near Dvor, a border town with Bosnia some 100 km south
of Zagreb, as a potential nuclear waste disposal site.
Trgovska gora has been chosen without any research, disregarding
the opinion of experts, the local population, the public, and the
local and regional government in Croatia and Bosnia, they
concluded.
Ecological non-governmental organisations and local authorities
in both countries will petition against making Trgovska gora or any
other location in Croatia a hazardous waste disposal area.
One of the participants in the debate was Viktor Simoncic, world
ecology expert, World Bank advisor, and coordinator of a Croatian
ecology study.
Croatia "in principle needs a low- and medium-level radioactive
waste disposal site, if only as a temporary storing place until
sufficient amounts are accumulated for export," he said.
Simoncic was against making Trgovska gora the only such location
and said "the procedure of establishing potential locations was
politically motivated, primitive and inexpert".
Toni Vidan of Zagreb's Green Action said this organisation had been
saying for four years that the procedure by which potential
locations were selected was unacceptably bad.
Before the debate, some 150 residents of Dvor and Trgovska gora
protested against using this area as a hazardous waste disposal
site and started signing a petition against the proposal.
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