The first equipment has arrived at a deconversion plant being built by Russia’s Rosatom and France’s Orano in eastern Siberia. The plant is part of a long-term project to manage and make use of depleted uranium stocks in Russia. Inside the forthcoming deconversion plant (Image: TVEL) The facility, called W2-EHZ, is sited at the Electrochemical […]
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Cryolite: In a photo story set to a soundtrack, a photographer journeys through the site of ecological disaster
Artist Lena Tsibizova is a maverick by nature. Having lived most of her life in Moscow, she often feels confined to the boundaries of the city: enormous as it is, its streets bear too many personal reminders to allow for unbiased wandering. In an urge to escape, she headed to Kuvandyk, a decaying industrial town […]
Proposed deal cuts average US utility quota of Russian uranium to 17% from 20%
Highlights Quota between 20%-24% to 2027 for new contracts Quota drops to 15% in 2028 US nuclear utilities will support amendment US uranium producers call for uranium reserve Washington — The US Department of Commerce and Russian-state owned nuclear company Rosatom have signed a proposal to extend an agreement limiting US imports of Russian uranium […]
Russia to build an additional facility to process DUHF (depleted uranium hexafluoride )
In line with plans to reduce its stockpile of depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUHF), a waste produce to uranium enrichment, enterprises of Russia’s Fuel Company TVEL (part of state nuclear corporation Rosatom) plans to build a new facility for the treatment of DUHF. The Central Design and Technological Institute (TSPI) and the Ural Electrochemical Plant (UECP) […]
Russia processes 100,000 tons of depleted uranium hexafluoride
Russia’s Electrochemical Plant (ECP) at Zelenogorsk in Krasnoyarsk in May completed the processing of 100,000 tons of depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUHF) at its W-ECP plant. “Thanks to the painstaking systematic work performed by the staff of the Electrochemical Plant, the plant has been operating stably for 10 years of operation, without failures, successfully completing its […]
“Our country will receive waste from foreign nuclear power plants built by Rosatom from time to time”
Environmentalist Vladimir Slivyak on the industry that “always kept its affairs secret” On March 19 and April 6 of this year, German eco-activists protested against the export of new shipments of radioactive waste to Russia, “cynically undertaken in the midst of the pandemic to safely avoid protests.” Realnoe Vremya spoke with Vladimir Slivyak, co-chairman of […]
Activists Block Train Carrying German Radioactive Waste to Russia
Greenpeace activists delayed a train carrying 600 tons of uranium hexafluoride, a radioactive byproduct. Britta Radike for Greenpeace Greenpeace activists have blocked a train in Germany carrying a shipment of radioactive waste destined for Russia, the environmental organization said Monday. German exports of depleted uranium hexafluoride, a byproduct of uranium enrichment, resumed to Russia […]
Rosatom issues a public response to Bellona’s concerns over depleted uranium imports
Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, has publically responded to criticism from Bellona over the company’s renewed policy of importing uranium hexafluoride, a byproduct of nuclear fuel fabrication, from an enrichment facility located in Germany. In remarks published Monday by the RIA Novosti Russian newswire, the company insisted that the substance, which many environmentalists consider to […]
Russia resumes importing depleted uranium from Germany, breaching old promises
Environmental groups have voiced concern that Russia is again accepting shipments of uranium tails, a byproduct formed when uranium is enriched, from a German nuclear fuel firm, reigniting a debate over whether the substance meets the definition of nuclear waste. The shipments of the toxic compound – also called uranium hexafluoride – were halted in […]
Russia Is Importing Toxic Nuclear Waste From Germany, Greenpeace Warns
A European uranium enrichment firm has resumed shipments of a highly toxic and radioactive waste product from Germany to Russia, Greenpeace Russia warned Wednesday. The enrichment firm Urenco and Russia’s state nuclear company Rosatom halted the radioactive waste imports from Germany in 2009 over revelations that the waste was stored in the open. German media […]