Russia revives international nuclear waste depot plan

0 Comments | AFP, February, 2006

MOSCOW (AFP) — Russia has revived plans for an international center for treating and storing nuclear waste, an official from the country's Rostekhnadzor atomic watchdog said.

Russia was one of several industrial countries that wanted to build such a facility, the agency's head Konstantin Pulikovski told reporters at an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) nuclear security conference in Moscow.

"Proposals are being prepared by Rostekhnadzor and the Rosatom atomic energy agency for such a centre," the Itar-Tass news agency quoted Pulikovski as saying.

"Plans for creating an international centre such as this on their territory have been undertaken by several major countries, including the United States," he said.

The scheme has been on Russian...