Bellona nuclear digest. March 2024
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
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Publish date: January 9, 2004
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We are simply barred from that very lucrative market, Rumyantsev said. According to Rumyantsev, the world market of SNF has been long divided among other countries, first of all the USA and France. Indeed, the United States controls an estimated 80 to 90 percent of the worlds SNF.
No negotiations on possible contracts are being held presently, he added. Legislation allowing the import of SNF to Russia for temporary storage and procession was passed amid heated debate in 2001. Minatom at the time promised that some $20 billion over the next 20 years would flow into government coffers because of the import plan.
But the importswhich include only a handful of former Soviet Bloc countries, some of whom are given large discounts because they cannot afford to pay the going rate for storagehave failed to materialise on the scale the ministry predicted. Various polls have shown that up to 90 percent of the Russian public is opposed to the import of foreign spent nuclear fuel.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
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