MOSCOW, March 17 (RIA Novosti) - Greenpeace activists are calling on French company Areva to cease nuclear waste exports to Moscow ahead of another train delivery of spent nuclear fuel on Wednesday.
Protestors rallied outside Areva's Moscow office and displayed a banner reading "Russia is not a dump".
Contracts between Russia and European countries on the delivery of nuclear waste to Russia were signed in the mid-1990s. The deal runs until at least 2014. The uranium is subsequently enriched in Russia, which boasts superior enrichment technology to its European partners.
"We are extremely concerned about the security requirements during the realization of these nuclear contracts. This is mainly linked to the fact that [Russia's state-controlled nuclear power corporation] Rosatom enterprises have cut down on radiation security in order to lower the net cost of nuclear production," a letter from the Greenpeace activists to Arevas's management said.
