Alarm over radioactive waste site

[emad]

July 15, 2005


By Julian Evans in Moscow

Environmentalists are opposing plans to build an international nuclear dump in Siberia


RUSSIA is seeking approval to build the first international storage facility for nuclear waste. The plan has aroused strong opposition from Russian environmentalists.

Aleksandr Rumyantsev, head of the Russian Federal Nuclear Power Agency (Rosatom), says that it makes sense to store waste in one large site rather than many small ones, which are more vulnerable to terrorist attack.

He presented the plan at a conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which the Russian Government is hosting in Moscow this week. “It is a good idea to have the facility in Russia, partly because of our space, and partly because we are the only country whose law allows it to import nuclear waste,” he said.


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1694625,00.html

[WhiteTara]

1. why not in Chernobyl?

after all that place has been destroyed for the next 125,000 years or so

[Endangered Specie]

2. Well, if they dont want it there, then where should it go?

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