Ural Electrochemical Integrated Plant Director General Alexander Belousov shows a plant's outdoor storage where containers with uranium hexafluoride nuclear waste are stored, in Novouralsk, some 60 km north-west of Yekaterinburg, Russia. Russia's state nuclear company Rosatom had been importing uranium hexafluoride, or UF6, from Urenco fuel rod treatment facility in Gronau up until 2009. Reportedly Urenco has resumed shipments of radioactive waste product from Germany to Russia for future processing.
- Categories: Economy, Business & Finance
- Location: Novouralsk, Russia
- Event date: 16.12.2019
- Date published: 16.12.2019
- Author: Pavel Lisitsyn
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 4000x2662px, 5.4Mb
- Job-ID: 103a5485e5b0567e