From BALTIC NEWSLETTER OF THE GREEN WORLD, June 1 2008:  On May 29 in the center of St. Petersburg, on the corner of Nevsky Prospect and Malaia Sadovaia streets, a protest demonstration was held by environmental NGOs Bellona (St. Petersburg), Ecodefense (Moscow) and Green World (Sosnovy Bor – St. Petersburg). It was action against the rejected registration of an environmental impact assessment of new Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant -2 (LAES-2) and the arriving to St. Petersburg by way of the Baltic Sea of a shipment with French nuclear waste.

This is not the first portion of dangerous shipment to be delivered to Russia since the beginning of 2008. In January and March 2000 tons of “uranium tailing” (depleted uranium hexafluoride) were transported to St. Petersburg from Germany by way of the Baltic Sea. In St. Petersburg, this shipment was transferred to train wagons and sent to Novoural’sk (Sverdlovsk Oblast), for processing and long-term storage. (Read the rest of the article)