29 January 2010
further nuclear waste problems for murmansk
The new law currently before the Russian Duma on the Management of Radioactive Waste does not offer sufficient safeguards for the health of human populations according to critics as reported in b-port.com, the regional news-agency from Murmansk. Apparently the law will even allow the importation of nuclear waste into Russia from abroad, which will scarcely assist Russia’s own massive problems with legacy waste. Furthermore, the plan is to bury the waste in the ground, and also inject liquid waste into rock fissures deep underground, something that dismays local authorities and environmental groups who fear that the Murmansk oblast ‘will experience the charms of the peaceful atom, even though no-one has consulted them – ‘все «прелести» «мирного атома» могут ощутить и жители Мурманской области. Причём жителей об этом никто не спросит.’
