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Troublesome nuclear travels

Thu, Nov 15 2001 13:00 CET

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The Kozlodui nuclear power plant has not hired an intermediary for the transport of spent nuclear fuel to Russia, the plant's executive director Yordan Kostadinov said on Monday, in response to allegations in the Russian press that the nuclear plant is working with offshore company Energy Invest Trade Corporation (EITC). The fuel has always been transported according to the spent fuel contract which was signed between Kozlodui and Tekhnoeksport-Moscow, Kostadinov said.

On Monday, Russian newspapers also reported that radioactive technical elements from a Bulgarian nuclear reactor were smuggled into Russia. According to the paper, the alleged smuggling of the radioactive materials was carried out together with 41 tons of nuclear fuel, transported by the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy from Kozlodui to the Gorno-Himicheskyi plant in the Russian town of Zheleznogorsk.

In connection with environmental protests in Russia last week, Kostadinov said on Saturday that the waste nuclear fuel which is transported from Kozlodui to Russia does not pose any threat to people or the environment.

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