U.K. Allocates $30 Million For Russian Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Efforts

The United Kingdom will spend $30 million this year to support efforts to reprocess and store spent nuclear fuel in Russia, RIA Novosti reported yesterday (see GSN, Oct. 17, 2003).

Projects to be funded include scrapping nuclear submarines at the Russian naval base in Severodvinsk, construction of a new spent fuel storage facility near Murmansk and construction of protective shelters for spent fuel storage sites at the Andreyevskaya Guba naval base, according to Simon Evans, first secretary at the British Embassy in Moscow. He said the $30 million is part of the United Kingdom’s $750 million pledge to the Group of Eight’s Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction (RIA Novosti/BBC Monitoring, March 23).

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