Thursday, February 25, 2010

Russian nuclear specialists eye Belarus as platform for experiments?



The designers of the Belarusian nuclear power plant do not know exacatly how safe the would-be station in the Astravets district will be and where the nuclear waste will be processed.

Andrei Azharovsky from the Moscow-based Ecozaschita (Ecodefens) told the European Radio for Belarus that one should not trust the promises of Rosatom company regarding the processing of nuclear waste from the station. The experts stressed that the type of the future station is experimental, with no such analogues around the world. Correspondingly, there are no enterprises that are able to process the nuclear fuel waste from the Belarusian nuclear power plant.

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