THE international environmental group Greenpeace on Wednesday called on the South African government to co-ordinate commonwealth opposition to European plutonium and high level nuclear waste shipments to Japan at this week’s Durban Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. At a press conference aboard the Greenpeace in Cape Town harbour, the environmental group warned of the imminent departure from France of a British flagged ship carrying high-level nuclear waste bound for Japan as France and the UK prepare for a massive escalation of such deadly transport. Although no details have yet been made public of the exact timing and route of the high level nuclear waste transport, Mike Townsley warned that the nuclear shipment could pass Cape Town at Christmas time.