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Facts on Europe’s nuclear waste dumping

How French solves nuclear waste ,  Jagadee’s English Webblog  January 20, 2010  St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

1. European utilities dumping uranium wastes in Russia include: OKG – Sweden, Vattenfall – Sweden/Europe, EoN and RWE – Germany, Electrabel – Belgium, EPZ – the Netherlands, British Energy – the UK, EDF – France, Iberdola – Spain, and NOK/Swissnuclear – Switzerland.
2. The uranium waste dumped in Russia over the last thirty years belongs to nearly every nuclear power company operating nuclear reactors in western Europe from Spain to Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Belgium. The UK and France have shipped the largest amount of uranium waste from their respective enrichment and reprocessing plants.
3. Areva spokesman, Charles Hufnagel acknowledged to Nuclear Fuel of December 5th that the uranium shipped back to Eurodif (France) represents only “10% of the total” sent to Russia. An Areva spokesperson also confirmed to Nuclear Fuel that this uranium would remain the property of the Russian enricher, Techsnabexport (Tenex).
4. Greenpeace Russia has filed a complaint against the illegal storage and dumping of uranium wastes in Siberia.Art. 48 of the 2002 law on ‘environmental protection’ prohibits storage or dumping of imported nuclear materials. A next session of the Moscow Court is scheduled for Dec. 8th
5. 5. Greenpeace letter to to IAEA’s Director-General Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei can be found here.
   The Real Face of the IAEA’s Multilateral Nuclear Approaches: The proliferation of nuclear weapon material & environmental contamination report.

How French solves nuclear waste « Jagadees’s English Weblog

January 21, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | General News | antinuclear, nuclear wastes, renewable