German Uranium To Be Flown To Russia
Berlin (AFP) Oct 28, 2006 Germany is set to fly 200 kilogrammes of enriched uranium to Russia for reprocessing before the end of the year, the German environment ministry said on Saturday. The waste was produced by a Soviet-era research reactor in Rossendorf, near Dresden in the former East Germany, which was closed down in 1991. The waste, which is not weapons-grade, will be processed in Russia under an agreement which provides for nuclear material from the Cold War to be returned to its country of origin. The waste will be flown to Russia on December 1 in a specially-adapted plane, according to press reports, but the ministry refused to confirm the date. Experts say it is safer to transport enriched uranium by air than by train. "That way less can happen to it than on the road or on train tracks," Udo Helwig from the German association for nuclear technology and analysis (VKTA) told the Berliner Zeitung newspaper. Environmentalists this month staged a protest in Moscow against the regular shipments of German nuclear waste to Russia.
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Russia, Kazakhstan To Open Uranium Enrichment Center Moscow (AFP) Oct 26, 2006 Russia and Kazakhstan are to open an international uranium enrichment center in Angarsk, eastern Siberia, the head of the Russian atomic energy agency Rosatom said Thursday. Rosatom chief Sergei Kirienko, speaking after a meeting with Kazakh Prime Minister Danial Akhmetov, said the facility would serve "not only our two countries but any country that wanted to develop civilian nuclear power." |
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