Mongolian People Say No to Nuclear Waste

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia (MFAM) made a statement in connection with recent media news that Mongolia may store foreign spent nuclear fuel.

MFAM has officially and responsibly denied this news in a statement released on April 6.

Pursuant to 4.1, Law of Mongolia on prohibition of importing and transit transportation of dangerous waste and its exporting”, it is prohibited to import to Mongolian territory the dangerous wastes for the purposes of use, store, temporary placement and disposal, the statement reads.

Another provision of the law states that it is prohibited to transit dangerous materials through the frontier of Mongolia, MFAM cites.

“Burial of nuclear waste refers solely to Mongolian-originated wastes as stated in Provision 3.1.22 of the Law of Mongolia on Nuclear Energy and the Government of Mongolia officially state hereby that it had not entered into any deal or negotiations intended to import foreign nuclear waste to Mongolia within the framework of cooperation with foreign states and nations” the statement reads
Incidentally, Care2 Petition site launched a global campaign to collect 10,000 signatures to stop the U.S. from creating a nuclear waste dump in Mongolia.

So far, it has collected 240 signatories.

Mongolia has huge land mass and there are many developed countries who are coveting a part of it for the safe disposal of their nuclear waste so that their citizens can live safely.

Having knowledge about Chernobyle and the present situation in Japan no responsible Government would ever allow such toxic waste to be buried in their backyard however big it might be. That is equivalent to letting a three year old child to play with sweetened rat poison.

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