The environmental organization Greenpeace on March 19 announced that in St. Petersburg on March 18 came the German ship "Shouvenbank" with a cargo of nuclear waste on board.
According to Greenpeace, the ship was brought to Russia otvalnogo 1250 tons of uranium hexafluoride (a by-product of uranium enrichment, yet almost never used). These residues belong to one of the German factories European consortium URENCO. Ecologists have become aware that in the near future goods "Shouvenbanka will be transported through residential areas of the business" Isotope ", located in the village Kapitolovo the Leningrad region. There uvezut waste for recycling in Siberia.
Greenpeace intends shortly to the General Prosecutor's Office, a statement on the smuggling of uranium to Russia. Defenders of Nature claim that in Russia at present imported approximately 100 thousand tons of depleted uranium hexafluoride from Western Europe. Although originally argued that the uranium in Russia to bring doobogaschenie back from the RF out is not more than 10 percent of raw materials.
According to the agency "Interfax", recently the head of Rosatom Sergey Kiriyenko announced that Russia would not once again extend the duration of contracts for the importation of uranium hexafluoride from Europe.
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