– The environmental watchdog Greenpeace alerted the governments of Argentina and Chile about a nuclear waste shipment that left Australia last week and could pass through Cape Horn, a threat to the territorial waters of both countries. The “Fret Moselle” departed the port of Australia's Botany Bay last Monday with five containers of radioactive waste from the Lucas Heights nuclear power plant, and is to arrive in December in France, where the load will be treated at the Cogema plant.

Although the Australian and French authorities refused to reveal the route that the freighter is to take, it would have to pass either through the Cape of Good Hope, in southern Africa, or South America's Cape Horn.

The Argentine constitution prohibits the passage of nuclear waste through its territorial waters.

In January 2001, the “Pacific Swan” followed a path near the South American coasts in its journey from Japan to France. By the time the Argentine and Chilean governments demanded that the nuclear waste carrying vessel avoid their territorial waters, it had already passed through them.