France to Investigate Claims its Nuclear Waste Sent Abroad
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France's ecology minister says she wants an investigation into reports that French nuclear waste has been sent to Russia for storage in open-air parking lots.
Chantal Jouanno said Tuesday on France-Info radio that the country's nuclear energy industry "must be completely transparent."
She was responding to reports in newspaper Liberation and Franco-German television Arte saying France stores 13 percent of its radioactive waste in Seversk in Siberia.
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French electricity company EDF said it sends uranium left over from nuclear plant production in France to Russia to be treated so that it can be used again. A company official denied that waste was left outdoors.
The reports say most of the used uranium cannot be recycled and remains in Russia.