France's EDF again sends spent uranium to state-owned Russian firm for recycling
A shipment of reprocessed uranium from French nuclear power plants has left the Channel port of Dunkirk to be enriched at a specialised Russian industrial plant run by the country’s nuclear energy group Rosatom, before being in part returned to France for further use in civil reactors. The shipment, loaded at the weekend on a Russian-operated, Panama-registered cargo vessel, was described by Greenpeace as a "cargo of shame", and “immoral”, while both French utility giant EDF, which operates the country’s nuclear power plants, and the French economy ministry, declined to comment. Jade Lindgaard reports.
InIn the early evening of November 18th, the Russian-operated, Panama-registered cargo vessel, the Mikhail Dudin, was continuing on its slow voyage up the North Sea from the Channel, heading to the Danish coastline, which it will round to travel south and east into the Baltic Sea.
