Waste

Puma
The Danish ship "Puma" is on its way from Slovenia to Murmansk with spent nuclear fuel for reprocessing at the Mayak facility in the Urals. The DecomAtom network is protesting against such shipments to Mayak.

Press conference in Murmansk

Yesterday the DecomAtom network organized press conferences in St.Petersburg, Chelyabinsk and Murmansk, to protest against the planned transport of spent nuclear fuel from Germany to Russia.

Gennadi Shabarin accepting the priceA documentary about radioactive problems in Mayak area, created by Gennadi Shabarin for the decommission project, has won the prize of the festival at Baykal International Film Festival 2010.

A Committee, established by the Norwegian Government, recommends that Norwegian nuclear waste is sent to the Mayak plant in Russia. This creates an image of the Urals and Siberia, as an international nuclear garbage dump.

In 2008, Rosatom Federal Atomic Energy Agency promulgated the bill On Radioactive Waste Management. This is one of the first attempts on the part of the agency of state administration to organize a broad discussion of an important law in the field of nuclear energy use. In this article we present some basic approaches to the new law.

On May 29 in the center of St. Petersburg, on the corner of Nevsky Prospect and Malaia Sadovaia streets, a protest demonstration was held by environmental NGOs Bellona (St. Petersburg), Ecodefense (Moscow) and Green World (Sosnovy Bor – St. Petersburg). It was action against the rejected registration of independent environmental impact assessment of new Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant -2 (LAES-2) and the arriving to St. Petersburg by way of the Baltic Sea of a shipment with French nuclear waste.