Russia is ready to store nuclear waste on its territory other countries. On the relevant proposal on the eve of the World Conference on Climate Change, which will begin on October 31, 2021 in Scottish Glasgow, said the secretary of the Security Council of Russia Nikolai Patrushev, reports “Komsomolskaya Pravda”.
“Russia is ready to take it (nuclear fuel – approx.” Tape.ru “) for storage from other countries where the atomic generation is recognized as the most important source of the XXI century energy,” he said, stressing that in Russia they keep such Waste safe, not harmful environmental damage.
Friday, October 29, it became known that 20 French containers with regenerated uranium arrived at the port of Dunkirk for subsequent delivery to St. Petersburg. It is expected that the ship with containers will come to Russia next week. After the regenerated uranium will go to the city of Seversk for processing. However, environmentalists fear that it will simply remain on storage in Russia, since the processing process is associated with the formation of radioactive waste.
Activists from the French Greenpeace were made against the sending of regenerated uranium, they conducted a protest, during which the Transparencies of the Transparencies were launched on the embankment “Russia – not a dump”, “stop radioactive transport” and “nuclear energy is not green”. They demanded to stop using Siberia as a place of storage of hazardous waste, because they can cause significant harm to ecology.
Later, the Chemist Scientist Vladimir Petrov denied the view that the import of regenerated uranium from France, which is nuclear waste, turns Russia into a landfill. “It is necessary to understand that the regenerated uranium is in no way is a waste – it is really valuable raw materials. Another thing is that few people know how to treat him so that it is safe, and cost-effective. In Russia, there are such technologies” , – he said.