Import of nuclear fuel to 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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[ 14.05.2008 ]
Bush submits US-Russian civilian nuclear pact to Congress – Congress unimpressed
Despite warnings from lawmakers that the United States’ recently signed civilian nuclear pact with Russia will face stiff opposition at their hands, President George Bush nonetheless submitted the deal Tuesday for Congressional review.
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[ 12.05.2008 ]
Putin’s swan song before leaving office: turning Russia into a nuclear outhouse
MOSCOW - In the hours preceding what was hailed as yet another “democratic transfer of power” by the western media, as Vladimir Putin handed the reins of power to his hand picked successor Dmitry Medvedev, an agreement for civilian nuclear cooperation was signed in the shadow of the pomp of the new president’s inauguration and the nuclear missiles to be comically and anachronistically paraded across Red Square on Victory Day.
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[ 07.05.2008 ]
Russian-US civilian nuke pact faces opposition in Congress – but environmental hazards elude argument
A US-Russian civilian nuclear power pact that would give Washington access to state of the art Russian technology and support the building of a uranium fuel “bank” in Siberia ran into immediate trouble after its signing in Moscow on Capitol Hill as two senators began voicing opposition to the agreement.
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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.

[ 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.

[ 29.11.2006 ]
International centre for uranium enrichment in Russia to be established soon

Head of the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency (Rosatom) Sergei Kiriyenko has said that the Angarsk plant will be excluded from the list of closed enterprises, ITAR-TASS reported.

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