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Russia Revives International Nuclear Waste Depot Plan
Moscow, Russia (AFP) Feb 28, 2006 Russia has revived plans for an international centre for treating and storing nuclear waste, an official from the country's Rostekhnadzor atomic watchdog said on Tuesday. Russia was one of several industrial countries that wanted to build such a facility, the agency's head Konstantin Pulikovski told reporters at an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) nuclear security conference in Moscow. "Proposals are being prepared by Rostekhnadzor and the Rosatom atomic energy agency for such a centre," the Itar-Tass news agency quoted Pulikovski as saying. "Plans for creating an international centre such as this on their territory have been undertaken by several major countries, including the United States," he said. The scheme has been on Russian drawing boards for years. In 2001 the government adopted legislation authorising the importation of nuclear waste from other countries. But the project has been stalled by opposition from Washington and the competition the plant would face from existing treatment centres in France, the world leader in nuclear power generation. The Moscow conference also considered an international licensing scheme to ensure surveillance of nuclear power stations built in developing countries. Often a number of countries contributed to the construction of new plants that after completion ended up being monitored solely by national agencies, Pulikovski said. Russia, which is building Iran's nuclear power plant near Bushehr on the Persian Gulf, has led diplomatic efforts to convince Tehran to surrender its controversial nuclear research program which the West fears could be diverted from electricity generation to making nuclear weapons. But Tehran has been cool on Moscow's offer to enrich uranium on its behalf, giving it the fuel for nuclear power but not the technology for a bomb. The IAEA board is due to meet in Vienna on Monday in a session that could trigger United Nations Security Council sanctions against Iran.
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Baltic Prime Ministers Back Construction Of New Nuclear Plant
Vilnius, Lithuania (AFP) Feb 27, 2006The prime ministers of the three Baltic states of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia gave their backing on Monday to the construction of a new nuclear power plant in Lithuania. After holding talks in the Lithuanian resort of Trakai near Vilnius, Prime Ministers Algirdas Brazauskas of Lithuania, Andrus Ansip of Estonia and Aigars Kalvitis of Latvia issued a joint statement saying they "support the initiative to build a new nuclear power plant in Lithuania." |
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