Nuclear Materials Stored In Siberian Parking Lots

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http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,654969,00.html#ref=nlint


A French documentary has revealed that radioactive materials from nuclear power plants are being being stored in containers in a Siberian parking lot. Meanwhile the largest power company in Europe, France's EDF, which sent the materials there, says it is not responsible.

The largest utility company in Europe, Électricité de France, has been accused of storing nuclear waste in an open air car park in Siberia. An investigative documentary called the "Nuclear Nightmare" that screened on Tuesday in Germany and France accuses the company of sending nuclear waste to a town in Siberia where it is then stored in metal containers in a parking lot.


The containers, the makers of the documentary -- French documentary director Eric Guéret and French journalist Laure Noualhat of the newspaper Libération -- report, are in the Siberian town of Seversk, formerly a secret "closed city" where there are several nuclear reactors, plants for reprocessing uranium and plutonium as well as storage and production facilities for nuclear weapons. Although the Russian town now appears on maps, entry into the area is still restricted to locals. Noualhat told SPIEGEL ONLINE that although they visited the outskirts of the city during their research, they were not able to get in themselves. However, they did interview contacts who worked in the nuclear industry inside the city. And apparently the containers can also be seen via satellite images.

It's Nuclear Waste -- But Not As We Know It

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Nuclear Recycling : 'The Technology Could Be Improved'

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Germans Sent Radioactive Materials to Siberia, Too

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get out the yellow crime scene tape and the HAZMAT yellow warning tape and while you are at it order some more tape.

not good news

[havocmom]

1. K, R, & any bets?

Start your stop watch ;)

[struggle4progress]

2. Oh ... so THAT'S how France has been solving its nuclear waste problem!

How scientific! How high-tech! How impressive!

[havocmom]

3. and notice, the industry cheerleaders did not show up in this thread

Hmmm, odd? or :rofl:

[madokie]

4. The nuclear power industry have distorted the truth and told us outright lies for 60 some odd years

[havocmom]

7. When you invite the industry cheerleaders to take the waste home to their own backyards

they sorta decline. They want to send it to someone else's back yard, while insisting it's all perfectly safe.

Wonder why they want to send it far away, bein as how it's so safe and all. Oh, wait, they lie? ;)

[Rage for Order]

5. Is this really something that should be broadcast in a documentary?

I understand why they did it, but I'm hoping they at least tried to get some government agencies to do something about it before telling terrorists where they could get radioactive material to build dirty bombs.

[havocmom]

6. Yeah, cuz terrorists who want to score some don't study nuke waste disposal practices.

They just watch TV and theater listings in hopes somebody will do a show to lead them to the stuff.