MOSCOW, Jan 13: Russia’s only nuclear reprocessing plant shut down at the beginning of the year due to pressure from the United States, the Russian ecology organization Ecodefense said on Monday.
Quoting an official in the atomic energy ministry, Ecodefense said Washington had promised to authorize the importing of its nuclear waste for stocking by Russia only if Moscow closed the Mayak plant near Chelyabinsk in the Urals region.—AFP
