Wednesday, March 14, 2012

France wants probe into nuclear waste sent abroad

France's ecology minister said Tuesday that she wants an investigation into reports that French nuclear waste has been sent to Russia for storage in open-air parking lots.

"Nobody has been able to confirm or deny this information for me, so there must be an inquiry," Chantal Jouanno told France-Info radio.

Newspaper Liberation and Franco-German television station Arte both reported that France stores 13 percent of its radioactive waste in Seversk in Siberia.

Sylvain Granger, director of the nuclear fuel division at French electricity company EDF, said it sends uranium left over from nuclear plant production in France to Russia to be …

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