Printer Friendly Page

Information on the Possible Creation of “Stations for the Storage of
Radioactive Waste at the ports of Ust-Lura in the Leningrad Oblast
and Bolshoi Kamen in Primorsky Krae” Do Not Correspond with Reality
Ministry of Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation
March 25, 2004

Translated by RANSAC Staff

There has been a recent announcement in the mass media that stations for the storage of radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel will be built at the ports of Ust-Lura in the Leningrad Oblast and Bolshoi Kamen in Primorsky Krae, allegedly at the initiative of Minatom of Russia. To explain the situation we are publishing an official letter, by the head of the Department for Coordination with Organs of State Power and Information Policy Nikolai Shingarev in answer to the inquiry of the coordinator of the energy department of the branch of the international organization “Greenpeace Council” V.A. Chuprova, who, referring to information received from ITAR-TASS, asked for answers to the following questions: 1) Whether the construction of a storehouse for radioactive waste at the port of Ust-Lura has started. 2) Whether this plan has passed an ecological examination. 3) Whether the construction of a warehouse or storehouse for radioactive waste products and nuclear materials in the sea trading port of Saint Petersburg is proposed. 4) Whether they are proposing to transport and store spent nuclear fuel at the seaports of Ust-Lara and St. Petersburg.