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MOSCOW (AP) -- The appeals board of the Supreme
Court on
Tuesday upheld an
earlier decision blocking the import of nuclear waste from
Hungary for storage in
Russia.
In February, the Supreme Court handed a major victory to
environmentalists when it
struck down a government decision that would have allowed
waste from the Paks
nuclear power plant to be permanently stored in Russia.
The environmentalists argued that under a 1992 law, Russia may
import spent fuel rods
from Ukraine, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Hungary for reprocessing,
but it must return the
waste to the countries of origin for permanent storage.
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