RUSSIA IMPORTING NUCLEAR WASTE FOR FINAL DISPOSAL AND REPROCESSING
  WASTE

Human foetus deformed by radioactivity, Mayak, Russia © Greenpeace Radioactivity victim, Mayak, Russia © Greenpeace Radioactivity victim, Mayak, Russia © Greenpeace

Latest News, News Archive, Backgrounders and Briefings

News Archive :

28 June 2001: GREENPEACE URGES PUTIN TO VETO NUCLEAR WASTE IMPORTS

7 June 2001: US CONDITIONS CAST DOUBT ON FUTURE OF RUSSIAN PLANS TO IMPORT NUCLEAR WASTE

6 June 2001: GREENPEACE CALLS ON PRESIDENT BUSH TO VETO EXPORTS OF US CONTROLLED NUCLEAR WASTE TO RUSSIA

Greenpeace protest outside Duma at first hearing 'Duma - think again!'18 April 2001: GREENPEACE SEES SECOND DUMA READING AS BREAKTHROUGH FOR STOPPING SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL IMPORTS TO RUSSIA

 

 

Adamov © Minatom28 March 2001: GREENPEACE WELCOMES DISMISSAL OF ADAMOV AND CALLS ON RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT TO REJECT HIS RADIOACTIVE WASTE IMPORT SCHEME

 

22 March 2001: DUMA DELAYS DECISION AS POLITICAL OPPOSITION GROWS TO LAW ALLOWING RADIOACTIVE WASTE IMPORTS TO RUSSIA

12 March 2001: RUSSIAN SUPREME COURT ACCEPTS GREENPEACE PETITION TO INVESTIGATE ILLEGAL REJECTION OF SIGNATURES OPPOSING RADIOACTIVE WASTE IMPORTS

5 March 2001: EU RUSSIAN "DISARMAMENT" FUNDING COULD INCREASE RUSSIAN STOCKS OF WEAPONS-USABLE PLUTONIUM
Download the Greenpeace report: The Disarmament Myth of Plutonium Fuel Production

2 March, 2001: GREENPEACE REVEALS DOCUMENTS PROVING CORRUPTION BY RUSSIA'S ATOMIC MINISTER AND CALLS FOR HALT TO HIS PLANS TO IMPORT RADIOACTIVE WASTE

Click the following link for the confidential report from the Russian Parliamentary Anti-Corruption Commission detailing illegal business activities of the Minister of Atomic Energy, Evgeny Adamov:
(English translation)
( in Russian) www.greenpeace.ru

21 December 2000: RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT VOTES TO BECOME THE WORLD'S NUCLEAR DUMP SITE

21 December 2000: GREENPEACE CALLS ON DUMA TO REJECT CHANGES TO ENVIRONMENT LAW TO ALLOW IMPORT OF FOREIGN NUCLEAR WASTE

29 November, 2000: GREENPEACE CONDEMNS RUSSIAN REJECTION OF NUCLEAR WASTE IMPORTS REFERENDUM

24 October 2000: 2.5 MILLION RUSSIANS SAY NO TO RADIOACTIVE WASTE IMPORTS AND CALL FOR NATIONAL REFERENDUM

9 October 2000: GREENPEACE AND RUSSIAN VILLAGERS DELIVER RADIOACTIVE SOIL TO DUMA IN CALL FOR AN END TO GOVERNMENT PLANS TO IMPORT THOUSANDS OF TONS OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE

23 March 2000: RUSSIAN CABINET EXPECTED TO APPROVE PLANS TO IMPORT NUCLEAR WASTE