NUCLEAR WASTE; January JEAN, THE RUSSIAN CASE FOR NOW LOCKED
COMMISSIONER RESPONDS TO DELEGATE COMMITTEE Trisaia
ROTONDELLA (MATERA), 16 OTT - The possibility of transferring
Italian nuclear waste''in Siberia or Central
on the Kola Peninsula, just north St. Petersburg''and '
''for now blocked.'' He wrote the Deputy Commissioner for
security of nuclear materials, gen. Carlo Jean,
in a response letter sent to the committee''No''Trisaia waste.
''Trisaia, like other central sites and systems - has written
Jean - not 'in any case a suitable site for the storage
final. Like all plants, installations and depots
medicinal and industrial waste (about 140 in Italy), and Trisaia
'now a de facto interim storage. Will remain 'until
that it will not be' found in Italy a final storage or
the material may 'be exported (made
very difficult with the current Italian law, which, pero ', Parliament could
change, and with EU directives and recommendations). A
Trisaia, as in other sites - said Jean - not '
be no storage of radioactive materials beyond those already
' existing on the site.''
As for 64 uranium fuel rods from the Central American
Elk River and kept the 70's in the center of
Trisaia Rotondella, Jean
confirmed that negotiations to bring them back in the United States''are taking place both
both technical and political. The last meeting 'was held on 19 September
. The next should take place before the end of October. Not
and 'not known when the store will 'be completed.
There are high hopes that the Italian applications are accepted.
If not go into port - he concluded - to 64 items
be downloaded from the pool and placed in safe Itrec
dry cask containers (armored), pending
can be transferred to final disposal, when it will be 'available
.''
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