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Andrew McKillop: Russian “expertise” in nuclear waste management
Alexander Yemelyanenkov, Russia Now
02 Jul 2012
Rosatom, the Russian nuclear energy giant, is to apply for a licence in the
hope of winning contracts to build power stations in North Wales and
Gloucestershire.
The state atomic energy corporation, is holding consultations over
its possible involvement in the British nuclear programme, according to
deputy director general Kirill Komarov. He was speaking on the sidelines of
Atomexpo-2012, a nuclear power trade fair in Moscow, attended by 1,300
company heads and specialists from 53 countries.
RUSSIAN WASTE MANAGEMENT EXPERTISE
The Norwegian environmental group Bellona Fondation reported in August
that Russia has admitted that it dumped 19 radioactive ships plus 14
nuclear reactors – some of them containing fissible material – into the
ocean:
The catalogue of waste dumped at sea by the Soviets, according to documents
seen by Bellona, and which were today released by the Norwegian daily
Aftenposten, includes some 17,000 containers of radioactive waste, 19 ships
containing radioactive waste, 14 nuclear reactors, including five that
still contain spent nuclear fuel; 735 other pieces of radioactively
contaminated heavy machinery, and the K-27 nuclear submarine with its two
reactors loaded with nuclear fuel.
Per Strand of the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority told Aftenposten
that the information on the radioactive waste had come from the Russian
authorities gradually.
2012-09-19 21:00:54
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