International

Against transport of spent nuclear fuel

Submitted by kjersti on Mon, 12/06/2010 - 12:32

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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.



Appeal to stop Germany from sending spent nuclear fuel to Russia

Submitted by kjersti on Thu, 11/11/2010 - 16:08

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The German government plans to send spent nuclear fuel to Russia. The waste will be shipped to Mayak, the place in the world with most radioactive pollution. DecomAtom NGOs are protesting.



Russian environmentalists on study tour to US

Submitted by Audun Randen Johnson on Mon, 09/07/2009 - 02:00

Oleg Bodrov and Gennady Shabarin from the DecomAtom network visited United States in August to learn from successful decommissioning projects.




Russian citizens protest against turning their homeland into a nuclear dump

Submitted by Oleg Bodrov on Fri, 05/30/2008 - 18:38

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.