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Nuclear Materials Stored In Siberian Parking Lots
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10-17-2009 8:15 AM
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But a new documentary film is unleashing a new debate about the issue of nuclear waste. " /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,654969,00.html"><STRONG>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.</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,654969,00.html"><DIV class="spInfoBox"> <H4>MAP</H4> <P>Tomsk 7 Nuclear Facilities in Siberia</P><P><A href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Tomsk-7&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hl=en&hq=&hnear=Sewersk&t=h&ll=56.618276,84.86475&spn=0.098606,0.110378&z=13&source=embed">Larger map view</A></p> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,654969,00.html">documentary makers also point out that the situation revolves around a legal loophole -- recycled uranium or plutonium is not classified as nuclear waste. By law it is merely "radioactive material." Which is why the international shipping of such waste products is not illegal</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,654969,00.html">What we really wanted to show was that we do not recycle 96 percent of this material, as some people pretend we do.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,654969,00.html">if (these materials) are so useful, should we really be sending them to the Russians? 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