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Russian groups challenge Rosatom on radioactive waste dumps

DEMAND FOR PUBLIC HEARINGS

Surrounding homes Seversk located at a distance of less than one kilometer from the place of storage containers. photo google Earth http://earth.google.com/intl/ru/

Open letter on the issue of import to Russia for foreign timeless storage dump uranium hexafluoride

Head of Rosatom State Nuclear Energy ”
Sergey Kiriyenko

Dear Sergei Vladlenovich!

Since the filing of the French media once again escalated the discussion of import to Russia for foreign timeless storage dump uranium hexafluoride. For nearly 15 years of European nuclear power corporations are sent to Russia uranium varying degrees of purity, enrichment, and in different chemical states. The essence of the contract remained the same: back to Europe, went enriched uranium for nuclear fuel, but Russia remained dump up to 90% of uranium hexafluoride (depleted uranium hexafluoride), the declared “valuable material”. At the same time remaining in Russia depleted uranium hexafluoride legally became the property of Russia.

During this time in four cities in the Urals and Siberia (Novouralsk, Seversk, Zelenogorsk, Angarsk) The remains of several tens of thousands to a hundred thousand tons of dump uranium hexafluoride imported from abroad.

This question has been raised in the discussion of various public organizations, so in 2007 our organization has sent a request to the Prosecutor General. Bezotvetno.

As a reaction to the current public debate about the safety of storage of depleted uranium hexafluoride at the sites of enterprises of Rosatom, we again hear the charges of failing to understand the substance, unreasonable assurances of safe storage of depleted uranium hexafluoride and its extraordinary value. In general, “do not worry, everything is under control.”

To consider such explanations serious answer is unlikely. This is not just a matter of public safety in areas of storage dump uranium hexafluoride is a matter of prestige in Russia and, most importantly, our responsibility to future generations.

April 12, 2006 in Seversk meeting public Tomsk and Seversk with you, we have formulated its attitude to the problem of storage of depleted uranium hexafluoride imported from abroad, so:
“If Rosatom claims that depleted uranium hexafluoride – a” valuable material “, show that within a specific timeframe for a particular technology and the money received from the profits of foreign uranium enrichment, these” tails of tails “will be safely used.
You took our approach and promised to provide the public with an approach of “Rosatom” to address this issue.

We are still waiting.
One of the largest sites with thousands of containers of uranium hexafluoride. photo google Earth http://earth.google.com/intl/ru/
That is still spoken, and spoken by Rosatom and the businesses of those “valuable material” does not give the slightest reason to belief that Russia is economically profitable nuclear cooperation with foreign corporations.

Often, these were only slightly veiled accusations of “green” in dilettantism or in the work of foreign competitors, “Rosatom”. In connection with the latter pose the question: the work of those who are lucky here depleted uranium hexafluoride? The dialogue in this mode is unlikely to continue.

All points above the «i» to be delivered only when the “Rosatom” clearly, without the traditional juggling with the terms and departure from the essence of the problem will give a full explanation on the following questions:
1. On the basis of any economic calculations to conclude such agreements and contracts, as a result of which in Russia are still tens of thousands of foreign dump tons of uranium hexafluoride?

2. What are the scenarios in the event fall on a platform of storage containers of depleted uranium hexafluoride in Seversk, Novouralsk, Zelenogorsk, Angarsk airliner Class A-319 “(one of the most frequent flights to cities in Siberia liner)?

3. At any time, for any technology “valuable material” (depleted uranium hexafluoride) will be used for a profit?

4. What will be the marginal profit from the use of these “valuable material”?

Our organization requires open public hearings on the issue of import to Russia of foreign dump uranium hexafluoride for timeless storage

We demand a hearing is not organized along the lines of “Rosatom” in the regions in conducting environmental impact assessment of nuclear plant construction. In directing such poshiba we not take part will soon initiate an independent public hearing.

Initially, the organizing committee hearings should be included Russia’s governmental environmental organizations, have repeatedly raised in the discussion of this question: “Greenpeace Russia”, “Ecodefense”, “Green Cross”, “Bellona,” and the organization of the regions of placing the dump uranium hexafluoride ( “SibEkoAgentstvo” ” Baikal Environmental Wave “, Ural Socio-Ecological Union).

Sincerely, head of the SibEkoAgentstva and Tomsk Green Cross Alexey Toropov
http://green.tomsk.ru/index.php?ch=home&GET_newsID=594

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October 20, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Russia, wastes | antinuclear, AREVA, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, wastes