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‘Radioactive Waste Being Stored in Seoul, Daejeon’

THE DONG-A ILBO NOVEMBER 04, 2008 09:27

The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute has kept low and intermediate levels of radioactive waste in Seoul and Daejeon, a report by the think tank said yesterday.

In the report submitted to ruling Grand National Party lawmaker Kim Jung-hoon, the institute has stored 1,163 drums (a drum equals 200 liters) of the waste in a building of the Korea Electric Power Corp.’s central training complex in northern Seoul.

The waste was generated from 2001, when the institute dismantled its two nuclear facilities inside the training complex.

Also, a temporary building of the institute in Daejeon has kept 11,074 drums of radioactive waste since 1985.

Low and intermediate levels of radioactive wastes include nuclear garments, gloves and overshoes used by workers at nuclear power plants or reactors, and destroyed parts and filters used in nuclear facilities. Such waste contains a lower amount of radioactivity, but is still dangerous………………….In a stark contrast to general belief, the institute has kept radioactive waste in general or temporary buildings not designed to prevent radioactive contamination.

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November 4, 2008 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | wastes