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The Yabloko faction in the State Duma thinks that, if approved,
amendments to existing legislation regulating the import, storage
and recycling of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) will cause tremendous
losses to Russia. The legislature will consider the amendments
at the second reading on March 22.
"We will do all we can to prevent adoption of the package of,"
Yabloko's Sergei Mitrokhin said on March 20.
He added: "We insist that all radioactive materials and waste
should be sent to their country of origin immediately upon recycling".
Otherwise, he added: "all the inhabitants of Russia will receive
"as a present" a huge amount of unburied waste." "It will be the
crime of the century."
"The Atomic Industry Ministry's main argument is to obtain profits,
which may subsequently be used to rehabilitate contaminated territories.
There are no guarantees in the text of the draft law that the
money will be used precisely for these purposes."
In the meantime, the Atomic Industry Ministry claims that the
import of foreign spent nuclear fuel for technological storage
and recycling will enable Russia to earn USD 20 billion over 10
years, which will be used, inter alia, for the ecological rehabilitation
of a number of areas in Russia.
See the original at http://russia.strana.ru/politics/parties/2001/03/20/985102871.html
See also:
Nuclear
waste bill section of the web-site
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