[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, GLOBAL: "Japanese team to remove Palau bombs"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[This report is from March, but the work is ongoing. It provides a  
partial answer to the question: When do underwater munitions release  
their toxic contents? - LS]

Japanese team to remove Palau bombs
Radio Australia
March 6, 2013

A team of munitions disposal experts from Japan is in Palau to remove  
unexploded bombs lying dormant since World War Two.

The team intends to remove many hundreds of tonnes of depth charges,  
underwater in a shipwreck for seven decades.

Matsuko Ikeda from the Japan Mine Action Service says they will begin  
the clearance work by May at the latest.


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For the entire story and a link to the audio, see
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-06/japanese-team-in-palau-to- 
remove-world-war-two-bombs/4556596

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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