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by Remundo » 14/03/22, 06:00

no problem of radioactive waste... : Mrgreen:
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Dozens of tons of uranium from reprocessing were sent by France to Russia, reveals Greenpeace. Exports deemed “unjustifiable”, both from an economic and environmental point of view.

France has started to send its radioactive waste to Russia again, a discreet business that it had stopped in 2010 for environmental reasons. This is revealed by Greenpeace in its dossier French nuclear waste: a one-way ticket to Siberia, published on Tuesday 12 October. https://reporterre.net/IMG/pdf/dechets_ ... 0-2021.pdf
That same day at 8:30 a.m., activists from the NGO placed around fifteen metal drums marked with a radioactive symbol in front of the entrance to the Orano nuclear group in Châtillon, south of Paris, to protest against these shipments. .


[Excerpts] The NGO discovered that several tens of tons of uranium from reprocessing (URT) had been loaded on board the ship Kapitan Lomonosov bound for Saint Petersburg on January 20 and February 12, 2021. Interviewed by Reporterre, the Orano company has admitted to being the origin of these shipments and that it had sold more than 1 tons of URT to the Russian nuclear company Rosatom. Another transport of this radioactive material is planned by the end of the year. EDF is no exception. In 2018, it signed a contract with Tenex, a subsidiary of Rosatom, for the conversion and enrichment of French reprocessed uranium (URT). [...]

To understand what it is, a detour through the nuclear fuel cycle is necessary.
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In France, most of the 56 reactors in service operate with natural uranium, made from uranium ore. Once this spent fuel, it is reprocessed at the Orano plant in La Hague (Manche). Three products result from this operation: plutonium which is used to manufacture MOX fuel (a mixture of plutonium and uranium), highly radioactive waste which is vitrified and stored on site awaiting possible disposal at Cigeo, and reprocessed uranium. The latter can eventually be converted and enriched to become a fuel called enriched reprocessed uranium (URE). In France, four reactors — those of the Cruas-Meysse nuclear power plant (Ardèche) — can be supplied with URE. But in practice, it is very little used.

Polluting Russian processes
The resumption of these exchanges with Russia raises many questions, alert Greenpeace. The first is environmental. The URT is stored, converted and enriched in the nuclear complex of Tomsk 7, in Seversk, in Western Siberia. The processes used before 2010 were extremely polluting. "The chemical and radioactive residues from the conversion and re-enrichment were [...] directly injected into the basement of the facilities in liquid form", recalls the NGO. At the time, the latter had fought to put an end to this ecological disaster. "We had launched a major international campaign with great resources and the support of our Russian colleagues", recalls Yannick Rousselet, nuclear campaign manager at Greenpeace, reached by telephone by Reporterre. Broadcast in October 2009 on Arte, the documentary “Waste, the nuclear nightmare" https://boutique.arte.tv/detail/dechets ... ire_395726 led to the creation of a parliamentary mission. At the same time, the High Committee for Transparency and Information on Nuclear Security (HCTISN) had been commissioned to investigate and had sent a delegation to Tomsk. Cornered, EDF had finally announced the end of the recycling of French URTs in Russia because of a “unsatisfactory effluent treatment process”.

However, there is no guarantee that the processes used today at Tomsk 7 are less harmful. “Investigations are impossible, because the city is closed,” explains Mr. Rousselet. “However, we have studied very high-definition satellite images which show that the storage of uranium drums continues to take place partly in the open air, without a protective device. "[...]

Maintaining the illusion of a "green nuclear"
The other questions are economic. The French URT sales contract concluded between Orano and Rosatom seems advantageous to the first: the French company no longer knows what to do with its unused stock of 32 tonnes which it stores in Pierrelatte (Drôme) and has even launched in expanding its facilities to cope with the approximately 700 additional tonnes of URT that it receives each year. But what about Russia?

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by Flytox » 15/03/22, 10:11

izentrop wrote:Should France deprive itself of nuclear electricity because there would be no solution for waste?
Since its inception, the French nuclear industry has provided meticulous care to manage the radioactive waste produced. In particular, she made the decision to assume its responsibilities as a nuclear operator by reprocessing spent fuels so as to recover both reprocessed uranium and plutonium which are nuclear fuels (nuclear materials) and thus reduce High Level Long-Lived Waste (HA-VL) to fission products only and assembly skeletons. The process of managing radioactive waste and all of the disposal facilities ensures that the waste is confined for a sufficiently long time, depending on its characteristics, so that it cannot present any risks for current and, above all, future generations.

After more than 50 years of operation of nuclear power in France, more than 2100 years of operation of pressurized water reactors and a saving of 6,1 billion tonnes of CO2 compared to gas combined cycles, waste such as The operation of the power stations has caused no impact either to the environment or to man. Few industries are capable of posting such a balance sheet.

In conclusion, we must affirm that there are no problems with radioactive waste. All have a suitable and lasting solution.
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Nuclear: The oceans transformed into a vast trash can
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While we have long known the harmfulness of radiation and exposure to nuclear products, for half a century, governments on all sides poisoned the ocean in all conscience and in defiance of the people, in order to serve the interests of the army and industrialists.

On March 12, 2011, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) attempted to cool the reactors of the Fukushima power station with seawater. All the water discharged then took on radioactivity. Tepco is trying to contain it, but between April 1 and April 6, around 520 m3 of contaminated water flow into the ocean via trenches. From April 4 to 10, Tepco is authorized to dump 10 m400 of "slightly" contaminated water into the ocean.

Later, contaminated cooling water treatment plants were installed, co-developed by Areva and Véolia. Readings on the sea water off the Fukushima Daichi power plant in May indicated contamination well above the standards.

In the medium term, the entire northern eastern coast is affected by the dispersion of long-lived radionuclides. The latter are called upon to reach the central and western Pacific. In addition, thousands of tons of solid debris, probably also mostly contaminated, cross the Pacific towards the United States...

A study published in the n°45 of Environmental Science and Technology confirms the prolonged contamination of the Pacific Ocean. It is also due to the incompetence and irresponsibility of Tepco, and to the unconsciousness of successive Japanese governments. Operating nuclear power plants is already suicidal; so in a country that regularly suffers from natural disasters…
The ocean becomes the ideal dump

After the Second World War, with the development of nuclear power and atomic weapons, the management of nuclear waste quickly became problematic. The European, American and Soviet governments decided to deliberately dispose of it at sea!

In a scientistic delirium and because of its extent and its immense volume, the decision makers consider the ocean as the ideal dumping ground. The first voluntary spills date back to 1946, not far from the coast of California. The last would have officially taken place in 1982 about a thousand kilometers from the French coast.

The disposal of solid and liquid waste is gradually being regulated. Result: hundreds of thousands of barrels of waste coated in bitumen or cement, sometimes in containers, lie at the bottom of the sea. Some containers designed to remain watertight for 500 years leak after 29 years...

In Western Europe, the United Kingdom became the champion of discharges into the sea. Between 1950 and 1963, the British nuclear energy authority immersed, at a depth of 60 to 160 m and 20 kilometers from La Hague, 17 tonnes of waste in metal drums. The overall radioactivity would be around 000 gigabecquerels.

According to the Institute for Nuclear Protection and Safety, the radioactivity of these waters is attributable to the reprocessing discharges from La Hague and its counterpart Sellafield, and to atmospheric nuclear tests. The drums are not even mentioned, yet the pit of the Casquets is a known nuclear dustbin. Liquid waste is dumped along ferry lines in the Irish Sea as far as the Windscale center is concerned.

The Dutch nuclear center in Petten disposes of its radioactive effluents in the North Sea using the same method. France prefers to quickly reject these contaminated liquids in the English Channel by a long pipeline of 2 km from La Hague.
Bioconcentration in living bodies

In the 1960s, fishermen regularly brought up drums of radioactive waste in their trawls. At the same time, concern is mounting, environmental NGOs and anti-nuclear movements are developing in the West. Releases are increasingly supervised at a national and then an international level.

The Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution Resulting from the Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, known as the London Convention of 1972, came into force in 1975. The Convention gives the International Atomic Energy Agency a consultative role . The signatory countries of the Convention must, before issuing a dumping permit, follow the recommendations of the IAEA.

Until 1977, disposal of radioactive waste into the sea only took place with the approval of national authorities. The OECD took over and created a multilateral consultation and monitoring mechanism to coordinate disposal operations. immersions prepared by its member states.

The USSR continues under its national regulations to secretly pollute the Arctic seas and the Pacific Northwest. During the 1983 consultative meeting, contracting parties to the Convention adopted a voluntary moratorium on the disposal at sea of ​​any type of radioactive waste pending the opinion of a group of experts.

In 1985, an enlarged group of experts concluded that the dumping of low-level radioactive waste was not dangerous for the environment but that it was not necessarily harmless. During its seven years of existence, no report of the international group of experts on the disposal of radioactive waste at sea (Igpra) indicates the existence of a strong impact on the environment resulting from the immersion radioactive trash cans.
Food chain contamination

Gradually, the dumping of radioactive waste was banned in the Baltic (1992), in the Mediterranean (1976), in the Black Sea (1992) and in certain areas of the Pacific (1985 and 1989). All immersion is prohibited by the States linked to the London Convention since a vote in 1993, effective in 1994.

In 2003, 78 countries ratified the London Convention. After the Fukushima nuclear accident, on the occasion of the international conference on radio-ecology and environmental radioactivity on June 20 in Hamilton, the European Radio-ecology Alliance was created. Let's hope that this umpteenth international body will look into this deliberate pollution...

Radiation from radioactive waste can last a very long time. Hence a possible bioconcentration of certain nuclides in burrowing invertebrates and filter-feeding animals. Through bioaccumulation, a whole part of the food chain can be contaminated. While we have known for a long time that any direct or indirect exposure to nuclear products induces risks, governments of all persuasions have knowingly poisoned the ocean in defiance of the populations, in order to develop civil and military nuclear power in complete peace of mind. Unfortunately for them, an international ecological awareness is developing everywhere, which increases after each "accident"...

The lies of the nuclear lobby deceive less and less. It is time, to prevent our planet from becoming uninhabitable, to get rid of this deadly industry and everything that spawned it: capitalism, centralism, state, productivism, army, nationalism.

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Re: Nuclear waste




by Exnihiloest » 15/03/22, 19:40


In Russia, there is only one mafia, the one in the hands of Putin. A mafia does anything for the money, including "handling" foreign nuclear waste, if it pays.
Funny the collaborators of the dictator Putin, who pretend to have the wrong target by spitting as usual on their own country.
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by Obamot » 15/03/22, 20:48

You forget the French mafia, which shamelessly resumed its exports of “nuclear waste” to the “mafia russian”, while knowing what she is doing, and in the country she exports them, which is implicitly a help to the “mafia russian...

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by Exnihiloest » 15/03/22, 20:53

Obamot wrote:You forgot the French Mafia...

Yes this is it...
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by Obamot » 15/03/22, 20:57

Exnihiloest wrote:
Obamot wrote:You forgot the French Mafia...

That's it yes... (blah-blah-blah)
Doesn't the mafia exist in the nuclear field? You're sure?

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by sicetaitsimple » 10/07/22, 15:49

Signing of the DUP (Declaration of Public Utility) for Bure underground storage.
There's still work to be done..... First "real" packages planned around 2035 according to the article.

https://www.actu-environnement.com/ae/n ... 39993.php4
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by GuyGadeboisTheBack » 10/07/22, 15:57

sicetaitsimple wrote:Signing of the DUP (Declaration of Public Utility) for Bure underground storage.
There's still work to be done..... First "real" packages planned around 2035 according to the article.

https://www.actu-environnement.com/ae/n ... 39993.php4

If it amuses you, here is decree no. 2022-993 of July 7, 2022 declaring the layer storage center of public utility
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by Janic » 11/07/22, 09:58

the art and the way of burying your shit so that no one sees it.
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