Import of nuclear fuel to Russia

Part of: Nuclear Russia

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In 2001, President Vladimir Putin signed a raft of legislation allowing for the import of radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel (SNF) from other countries. The plan was one that former Minster of Atomic Energy lobbied hard for―to the point of bribing some Duma deputies. Adamov promised Russia would reap $20 billion over 10 years for the import and reprocessing of foreign SNF. But Russia’s single reprocessing plant―Mayak― cannot handle certain types of fuel being imported. Thus Russia is fast becoming a storage facility for radioactive waste.

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[ 18.01.2012 ]
COMMENT: Mobile nuclear meltdowns: Coming soon to a town near you?
MOSCOW - Some three hundred nuclear time bombs are to cross the vast expanses of Russia within the next dozen years as Moscow embarks on its plan to send special-purpose trains with spent nuclear fuel (SNF) burnt at the country’s commercial reactors to a storage facility in Siberia. That’s the “solution” the nuclear industry has come up with for the ever mounting problem of nuclear waste – take it cross-country and pile it up where it will threaten the environment and public health for generations to come.
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[ 21.12.2011 ]
Russia’s plan to move spent nuclear fuel to Siberia raises safety concerns – and fails to solve the mounting waste problem
ST. PETERSBURG - A special-purpose train carrying 80 tons of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) from Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) near Russia’s second largest city of St. Petersburg is soon to head out to a closed town in Siberia – a first shipment in an envisioned large-scale SNF relocation project that environmentalists fear will turn Siberia into a nuclear dumpsite and drastically increase overall safety risks, while helping none to address the exacerbating threat of nuclear waste accumulation
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[ 13.01.2011 ]
Russian-US 123 agreement comes into force, bringing possible nuclear hazards for Russia
President Dmitry Medvedev has called for a businesslike approach to nuclear cooperation with the United States after an environmentally dicey accord on civilian cooperation between the two countries – called the 123 agreement – cleared the way for the two countries to exchange technology and open nuclear joint ventures.
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[ 19.01.2009 ]
EU issues first rumblings against reopening Kozloduy

The European Union’s Commissioner for or Consumers’ Protection, Meglena Kuneva, issued the European body’s first salvo against Bulgaria restarting reactors at Bulgaria’s Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant – a notion Sofia is vocally considering to combat gas shortages amid Russian and Ukrainian gas price and transport wrangling.

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[ 08.12.2006 ]
”Russia should not import foreign nuclear fuel for storage and reprocessing”

The head of the Russian Nuclear Agency, or Rosatom, Sergey Kiriyenko stated that while discussing with the Russian MPs nuclear industry reforms on December 6th.

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[ 04.12.2006 ]
Protest against International Nuclear Centre in Siberia

The meeting was organised on December 3rd by the Russian NGOs: Baikal Environmental Wave, Baikal Movement and National Bolshevik Party. The activists demanded full information about establishment of the International Nuclear Centre in Angarsk, Irkutsk region, revealing the cancer statistics in the region, prohibition of nuclear and chemical waste storage in Angarsk, Geiger counter for all local inhabitants.

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