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Mechanical engineers of Rosatom started assembling the vessel of the reactor for the nuclear icebreaker Leningrad

137 foreign diplomats visit CNNC

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Russia and Myanmar signed an intergovernmental agreement for the construction of a small modular reactor

French activists block train with radioactive waste for Russia

French Greenpeace activists blocked a train carrying some 650 metric tons of radioactive waste in protest against the export of nuclear waste to Russia, the Greenpeace Russia website said.

A shipment of depleted uranium hexafluoride was due to be loaded onto the Captain Kuroptev in the port of Le Havre and sent to St. Petersburg. However, the ship weighed anchor and headed towards the port of Montoir-de-Bretagne pursued by the Greenpeace ship Esperanza.

The Greenpeace statement said the activists chained themselves to railway tracks, delaying rail traffic towards Montoir-de-Bretagne for more than four hours.

The activists said that the radioactive nuclear waste shipment from their country to Russia violates French law and an EU directive banning the import and export of dangerous waste.

In February, activists conducted several protests against nuclear waste transportation to Russia and its storage in the country.

The dangerous cargo belongs to the French nuclear group Areva, which has a contract with Russia, the only country in the world accepting uranium hexafluoride in industrial quantities. The deal lasts until at least 2014 so a few thousand tons of depleted uranium may be transported to the country.

Areva claims the waste is send to Russia for reprocessing and is to be returned to France, but critics say it is actually just waste. Over the past 15 years, Areva and its Brussels-based counterpart Urenco have dumped 140,000 tons of waste in Russia.

SOURCE: RIA Novosti

DATE: March 12, 2010

Topics: NFC, Russia, Europe, France

Russia and Myanmar signed an intergovernmental agreement for the construction of a small modular reactor
On 4 March, an intergovernmental agreement on principles of cooperation in the construction of a SMR (small modular reactor) in Myanmar was signed during the state visit of Myanmar leadership to Russia.
The document was signed in the presence of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, Chairman of the State Administration Council and Prime Minister of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, by Alexey Likhachev, Rosatom State Corporation Director General, and Dr. Myo Thein Kyaw, Union Minister of Science and Technology of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar.
The intergovernmental agreement regulates the conditions and main directions of interaction between...


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