The US and Japan will store nuclear waste in Mongolia

Mongolia will build an extra fuel storage facility, bury the recovered nuclear fuel. This news has just become the focus of controversy of society and the people of Mongolia.

On July 20, many Mongolian websites that led sources from Japan said that Japan, the US and Mongolia plan to implement the ' synthetic fuel service ' plan (CFS), ie Mongolian real estate. Export and export of nuclear fuel, Mongolia will be responsible for recovering their waste. Mongolia will build an extra fuel storage facility, bury the recovered nuclear fuel.

Nuclear waste containers.

The United Nations Nuclear Watch Agency and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) can provide technical assistance. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) also intends to refer to this model and implement cooperation with Mongolia on uranium fuel.

Fuel excesses "attract" Japan, America, Mongolia and UAE

Kyodo said that on July 18, they received a draft agreement between the three Japanese-American-Mongolian governments. This draft clearly states support for the expansion of nuclear energy use, and the proposal: the three countries will conduct regular consultations, will discuss the possibility of technology support for Mongolia in the construction of Mongolia. excess fuel storage facility.

Radioactive waste depot of Lubu nuclear power plant, Germany.The German government plans to shut down all 17 of its nuclear power plants by 2022, but there are about 17,000 radioactive substances that need urgent treatment.

Many sources from Japan revealed that the Department of Energy and Resources of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Technology (METI) in Japan has initiated a document, METI and Toshiba company, Ministry of Energy. The US and Mongolian government ' are conducting informal discussions ' on the CFS idea.

The document also said that after introducing the core content of the idea of ​​CFS for the UAE, which built a new nuclear power plant, they began to contact Mongolia.

Kyodo said, if the idea of ​​" synthetic fuel service " is implemented, it will become an international framework for the supply of nuclear fuel and processing of excess fuel. But, after the accident of the No. 1 Fukushima nuclear power plant, this idea may be more difficult to implement now, but its motivation including private businesses still exists.

Secret talks about excess fuel recovery

According to US media, from September 2010 onwards, the US Department of Energy, Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Technology and Mongolian officials have begun conducting secret negotiations on the issue, originally. The cause is the fear of causing opposition from neighboring countries and the people of Mongolia.

The underground laboratory Bill in eastern France, the ground worker 490 m.This laboratory is under the management of the French National Radioactive Waste Management Agency, plans to go into operation in 2017. But they need to go through a series of debates, licensed and commissioned. .

Reuters said that the main purpose of US-Japan cooperation with Mongolia is to provide surplus fuel recovery services of businesses from both countries and businesses, including General Electric, Westinghouse, Hitachi, Toshiba . Thereby, the US and Japan will compete better with Russia and France in the world nuclear power market.

In the recent nuclear power contract that Russian companies have signed with Vietnam and Turkey, including the provision of excess fuel recovery to Russia, Russia has also pledged to recover excess fuel from a range of factories. Nuclear power is built in India. The US and Japan hope that through the construction of new surplus fuel storage in Mongolia, enterprises of these two countries will escape the unfavorable situation when competing with Russian businesses today, and taking advantage of uranium resources. rich of Mongolia to secure stable uranium supply.

It is reported that the draft three-country agreement allows the transport of excess fuel from the US and Japan to storage in Mongolia. Due to the opposition of the American people, in more than half a century of the nuclear industry, the US always lacks a dedicated nuclear waste warehouse. The recent nuclear disaster in Japan has raised concerns about nuclear waste treatment of nuclear power plants. Experts say that the current way to store excess nuclear fuel in the US has a huge risk of fire, more easily being attacked by terrorists.

Mongolia: the government is silent, people protest

On July 20, the Mongolian online newspaper published a post titled ' The draft of the construction of Mongolia's nuclear waste facility has been completed and goes into the approval phase ', saying the news about the project was a Mongolian MP admitted 1 day earlier.

The transportation of nuclear waste into Mongolia requires the consent of two major neighbors, China and Russia.

The person in charge of information for the Mongolian Nuclear Energy Department also promised to answer the reporter's question after consulting with the country's leader. But, now, Mongolian officials have not had any reaction to this information.

In fact, the construction of nuclear waste facilities in Mongolia is facing enormous obstacles. Mongolia's 'Today' newspaper quoted a senior Japanese official as saying: " The Mongolian society is completely unprepared for receiving this plan ."

It is reported that the transport of nuclear waste into Mongolia requires the consent of two major neighbors, China and Russia, and the possibility that terrorists will take advantage of nuclear waste. This is for making nuclear weapons.

Mongolian netizens voiced strong opposition on the internet, saying that ' the world's nuclear waste should not be stored in Mongolia ', ' the Mongolian people also need to live in a healthy environment. strong like other peoples '.