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Russia doesn’t count depleted uranium as ‘nuclear wastes’

The Russian state-media report adds the uranium isn’t considered waste material because it can be reprocessed. Depleted uranium, however, has severe health consequences from long-term exposure.

Greenpeace irked by Russia’s uranium,   ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, April 14 (UPI) –– A ship from the environmental group Greenpeace arrived Wednesday in St. Petersburg, Russia, to protest nuclear fuel waste shipments from France.

Environmental activists protested on the docks of St. Petersburg to voice opposition to the arrival of Russian cargo ship Kapitan Kuroptev. The ship is carrying more than 600 tons of depleted uranium from French nuclear conglomerate AREVA, Russia’s state-run news agency RIA Novosti reports.

The Russian state-media report adds the uranium isn’t considered waste material because it can be reprocessed. Depleted uranium, however, has severe health consequences from long-term exposure.

Greenpeace irked by Russia’s uranium – UPI.com

April 15, 2010 - Posted by | Russia, spinbuster | , , , , , , ,

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  1. I was in Iraq in 2001 working on a sewer polluted water
    plant..
    Basra health officials gave us dozens of pics show some of
    the many hundreds of extremely deformed babies born in Iraq
    since the 1991 Gulf war. Many forms of cancer and leukemia in children had increased 400 to 600% and they gave us a university epidemialogical study that proved beyond any
    doubt that US depleted (DU) weapons were responsible for
    these huge increases that were killing and maiming the Iraqis.Close to 2 million US troops have been there since 91 and exposed to,and inhaled the very same lethal toxins.

    Bud Deraps's avatar Comment by Bud Deraps | April 20, 2010 | Reply


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