Greenpeace delivers radioactive waste to the door of the European Parliament in Brussels to remind MEPs in their last plenary session before considering a new nuclear waste law that there is no solution to nuclear waste. They demonstrate against AREVA's La Hague.

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Nuclear waste - no solution: extracts from Greenpeace demonstration

Exterior shots of the European Parliament. Greenpeace demonstrators. They are hanging from the EU flagpoles holding banners in different languages: Nuclear waste- no solution

Poster: Radioactive waste from La Hague Seabed (FR)

SOUNDBITE (English), Eloi GLORIEUX, Greenpeace Belgium nuclear campaigner, Greenpeace came today to the EP to present to the MEPs two barrels which contains radioactive waste. Radioactive waste that we collected on publically, accessible sites, like for example beaches in Sellafild, in the UK, in la Hague, in France, where re-processing facilities are just discharging radioactive materials into the Ocean.

SOUNDBITE (English), Eloi GLORIEUX, Greenpeace Belgium nuclear campaigner, The European Commission very soon will present to the Parliament a directive in radioactive waste, pretending that with this directive the problem of radioactive waste is solved. The reality is that it cannot be solved, the problem of radioactive waste is simply so bad it cannot be solved. For example, those wastes that we bring here today, we collected them just in the open air, they are discharged, they are not contained by the nuclear industry but discharged on publically, open spaces, where children walk every day and inhale those hazardous radioactive materials and this is really a scandal. We want the EP to take care of this.