waste trade

Today, Greenpeace has published the letter of JV “Techsnabexport”, the organization being responsible for international nuclear contracts in Russia, about purchase of depleted uranium hexafluoride (UF6) from URENCO Dutch company at price of USD 0.6 per kg. The representatives of the nuclear industry consider UF6 to be “valuable” raw materials for the energy industry, but such low price makes it doubtful. In the opinion of Greenpeace, this is one more confirmation that the UF6 export from Western Europe to Russia is nothing else but import of radioactive waste to Russia.