Greenpeace Russia, “Radioaktivnyye otkhody i problema vvoza, khraneniya i pererabotki v Rossii otrabotavshego yadernogo topliva iz-za rubezha.”

Igor Kudrik, “Import of Spent Nuclear Fuel to Russia,” Bellona Web Site, 6 December 2002.

Matthew Bunn, John P. Holdren, Allison Macfarlane et al, Interim Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel: A Safe, Flexible, and Cost-Effective Near-Term Approach to Spent Fuel Management, A Joint Report from the Harvard University Project on Managing the Atom and the University of Tokyo Project on Sociotechnics of Nuclear Energy, June 2001.

Matthew Bunn, John P. Holdren, and Anthony Weir, "Securing Nuclear Weapons and Materials: Seven Steps for Immediate Action,” Harvard University, May 2002, pp. 77-78.

Paul Webster, “The Grab for Trash,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, http://www.thebulletin.org, Volume 58, No. 5 (September-October 2002).

“Spent Fuel Import Project Overview,” NIS Nuclear Profiles Database.

“OYAT – Syrye dlya energetiki budushchego,” Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy Web Site, http://www.minatom.ru/presscenter
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For information on US assistance in Russia, particularly regarding plutonium disposition and the search for a geologic repository, see Preventing Nuclear Proliferation: The Post-Cold War Challenge, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Web Site, http://www.llnl.gov/str/Dunlop2.html.

For general information on spent fuel and information on spent fuel storage in the United States, see the “Materials in Inventory Spent Nuclear Fuel Report - Executive Summary,” Department of Energy Web Site, http://www.em.doe.gov/takstock/appxbi.html.

On the Insertion of Additions to the law On the Use of Atomic Energy

On the Insertion of Additions to Article 50 of the Russian Federation law On Environmental Protection.

On the Special Commission on Questions of Importing Irradiated Fuel Assemblies of Foreign Manufacture onto the Territory of the Russian Federation.

On Special Environmental Programs for the Rehabilitation of Radiation-Contaminated Regions of the Territory

Dr. Thomas Cochran, Director, Nuclear Program, Natural Resources Defense Council, “The Non-Proliferation Trust: An Update,” presentation at a Proliferation Roundtable at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 30 November 1999, available at http://www.ceip.org/programs/npp/cochran.htm.

Irradiated Nuclear Fuel Management conference, 8-12 September 2002, Moscow. Participant statements (in Russian) available at: “Obrashcheniye s obluchennym yadernym toplivom 2002: Novyye initsiativy Rossii,” http://www.tenex.ru/digest/elbiul.html.

Bellona Web Site, Spent Fuel Imports News, http://www.bellona.no/en/international/russia/
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Greenpeace Mayak Web Site, http://archive.greenpeace.org/mayak/index.html.

Minatom Web Site, http://www.minatom.ru.

NIS Profiles Database, “Spent Fuel and Radioactive Waste Developments,” http://www.nti.org/db/nisprofs.russia/
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PIR Center Web Site, http://www.pircenter.org

Russian Nuclear Nonproliferation Site, http://www.nuclearno.com.