INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS CALL FOR CARE OVER KYRGYZ URANIUM DUMPS
October 1st, 2006
BY MARK ROWE
OFFICIALS in the central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan have called for urgent action to tackle the country's uranium dumps, a legacy of the country's role in the nuclear industry of the former Soviet Union. Their call has highlighted increasing concerns about how depleted uranium is stored, at a time when the United Kingdom and other governments look set to press ahead with a new generation of nuclear power stations.
More than half of the world's uranium is mined in Canada (28%) and Australia (23%), but a proportion of it is yielded from countries ...
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