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Publish date: November 24, 2005
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According to ITAR-TASS, the shipment went on without incidents. The train with the spent fuel was guarded day and night by the police special forces. The Combines specialists also accompanied the train and monitored the conditions of the casks containing spent nuclear fuel. A nuclear storage facility with 6,000 tons capacity is situated in Zheleznogorsk. A new dry storage facility capable to accommodate and reprocess 38,000 tons is scheduled for 2009.
Throughout the past year, our mission at the Bellona Environmental Transparency Center has focused on two key, but intertwined issues—nuclear and radiation safety as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drags on, and the worldwide influence of Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, which itself is actively involved in the war and has participated in the occupation of a Ukrainian nuclear power plant.
At the beginning of the year, reports in the German and Russian press suggested an approximate 70% increase in uranium imports from Russia to Germany in 2024. But does this reflect broader European trends? It does not. Overall, imports of uranium and nuclear fuel from Russia to Western countries actually dropped sharply in 2024. Unlike the situation in Germany, this is already an established trend.
A Lingen, Germany plant could begin producing nuclear fuel in cooperation with a subsidiary of Rosatom, Russia's state nuclear corporation, which is directly involved in the war in Ukraine and occupying the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
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