Paul Goble
Staunton, Oct. 16 – To the horror of
environmental activists in Europe and Russia and the fears of security analysts
that Moscow will reprocess this waste for nuclear projects including
potentially weaponry, Moscow has begun importing radioactive wastes from Europe
after a ten-year gap when such shipments did not take place.
Russia confirmed that it has begun
importing for storage more than a thousand tons of radioactive waste from
France on the basis of a deal that was reached last year (region.expert/uranium/ greenpeace.org/eu-unit/issues/climate-energy/45879/french-nuclear-companies-exposed-dumping-radioactive-waste-siberia/, and newizv.ru/news/society/13-10-2021/rossiya-budet-pererabatyvat-uranovye-othody-i-frantsii).
Environmental activists have
expressed serious concern that Moscow has won these contracts with low bids
that reflect the fact that it does not observe the safety requirements for the
storage of materials that will remain radioactive for decades or longer or
ensure that transit from ports to the interior of the country is handled in
ways that do not threaten public health.
France is not the only EU member now
sending nuclear wastes to Russia for storage. Germany is too on the basis of an
agreement reached in 2019 that anticipates the dispatch of 12,000 tons of
radioactive waste from Germany to Russia in the coming years (finanz.ru/novosti/aktsii/v-rossiyu-vvezut-12-tysyach-tonn-uranovykh-otkhodov-iz-germanii-1028622113).
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