EDF 'sends used nuclear material' to SiberiaEDF, the French firm which owns eight of Britain's nuclear power stations has shipped hundreds of tons of used radioactive material to Russia.
By Henry Samuel in Paris
Published: 6:30AM BST 13 Oct 2009
More than 1,500 tons of spent fuel produced by the power company EDF was discovered in metal containers near a Siberian town.
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However, according to nuclear experts cited by the Libération newspaper, thousands of tons of that fuel actually end up 5,000 miles away in Seversk, Siberia. They claimed that polluted, depleted uranium sits in an open-air "parking area" in metal containers and is visible from satellite images.
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"No nuclear waste (is sent) to Russia," said a spokesman for the company.
"Only recyclable uranium, reprocessed from EDF's nuclear reactors, is sent to Russia to be enriched," he said. The company added that according to international "contracts relating to uranium", the depleted uranium was now the property of Russia, not France.
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It's not French nuclear waste, it's Russian nuclear waste!
Do people really fall for this? Yes, they do!