Import of uranium tailings

Depleted uranium hexafluoride, or uranium tailings are a side produce to the uranium enrichment process in making fuel for nuclear power stations. Several thousand tons of depleted uranium hexafluoride has piled up in Russia and in other countries and there are no long term plans for their further use, meaning uranium tailings are classifiable as radioactive waste. According to the Russian legislation radioactive waste is defined as those nuclear and radioactive substances for which no further use is envisioned.
Russian legislation forbids the import of pure radioactive waste. Nevertheless, uranium tailings are imported to Russia via a variety of contracts between Russian atomic energy agency Rosatom and the German-British-Dutch enrichment giant Urenco, the French Eurodif enrichment concern, and others.
The current contracts between Rosatom and the western enrichment firms are valid until 2009 for Urenco and 2014 for Eurodif.

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[ 25.01.2011 ]
Rosatom presents a few results from its work in 2010 with a cocktail of gallows humour
At the end of December the public council of Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, held it’s year-end meeting at which Rosatom head Sergei Kiriyenko presented two planned reports containing the short conclusions on his company’s performance in 2010.
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[ 30.08.2010 ]
Comment: Putin and ecology
MOSCOW – On August 27, as the bitter controversy surrounding the clear-cutting of Moscow’s Khimki forest – the felling was started to make room for a new Moscow-St. Petersburg motorway – and environmentalists fighting to protect it had reached it peak, with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stepping in with an order to suspend the felling for “further analysis,” Prime Minister Vladimir Putin weighed in with a comment of his own. Bellona’s regular contributor Vladimir Slivyak offers a short review of the situation – and Putin's true ecological credentials.
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[ 30.03.2010 ]
International fuel bank in Russia gets go-ahead from IAEA to industry cheers and environmental dismay
NEW YORK – The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Russia signed off Monday to set up the world's first nuclear fuel reserve in Siberia Monday to ensure uninterrupted supplies to the world's nuclear power reactors.
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[ 23.05.2005 ]
Recovery of radioactive leakage in UK to take four weeks

The recovery of highly radioactive leakage resulting from a leak discovered April 18 within the fuel clarification cell of the Thorp reprocessing facility at the UK’s Sellafield site began late last week, and will take around four weeks to recover a British Nuclear Group official told Bellona Web.

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[ 06.05.2003 ]
Tailings dump of uranium waste in Kirghizia threatened with destruction

The Tectonic-1 giant landslide which is pending over the tailings dump of uranium waste near the town of Mailuu-Suu has become active in the south of Kirghizia, RIA-Novosti reported on April 23th.

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[ 28.09.1998 ]
Karelia to Start Uranium Mining

The government of the Karelian Republic and the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia declared a tender on exploring the Srednyaya Padma uranium deposit at the Onega Lake. The results of the tender will be announced by October 15.

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