Radio Free Europe 10/23/2019
The Russian office of environmental activist group Greenpeace has voiced concern that Russia has again begun accepting uranium tails, a by-product of enriching uranium, from abroad.
Citing German government documents, Greenpeace and anti-nuclear group Ekozashchita (Ecodefense) said the nuclear waste, coming from enrichment company Urenco at its German Gronau facility, poses a risk because it is radioactive and toxic.
The Urenco contract with Russian nuclear-fuel giant Teksnabeksport (Tenex), an affiliate of the state-run nuclear corporation Rosatom, is from 2019 to 2022 and foresees the shipment of 12,000 tons of uranium tails to Novouralsk, near Yekaterinburg.
Since May, Urenco has so far shipped 4,000 tons of uranium enrichment waste to Russia.
More:
https://www.rferl.org/a/greenpeace-germany-shipping-12-000-tons-of-radioactive-waste-to-russia/30233017.html
