Reaction of the director of the St. Petersburg plant "Isotope",
which was responsible for sending of railcar with WUH, found out by
the Green Peace active workers at station Kapitolovo:
«We have executed all the rules, but I agree both with you, and
with the Green Peace - today it would be reasonable to toughen
requirements of physical protection … And nevertheless the danger
was not created. To receive the limiting annual dose which is no
harm to health, the person would need to stay on the Kapitolovo
platform for 400 hours … The railway men have an instruction -
dangerous railcars should be putted on the maximum distance from
the people. They used to do this, but this time did this not in the
best way. Obviously, it was made not in malicious intention, but in
the absence of the technical possibilities».
[The Komsomol truth - St.-Petersburg, the 1st of August,
2006]
• «WUH is transported and stored in steel containers (everyone -
more than 10 tons) on the industrial open-air platforms. Thus
covers of containers are corroded that can lead to their
destruction».
[The letter of Ministry of Health The Russian Federation
№2510/8197-03-20 from 7/24/2003]
• «Storage of capacities with WUH on the industrial platforms
does not meet the modern safety requirements».
[The performance report of the federal Russian supervision of
nuclear and radiating safety in 2003, Moscow, 2004]
• «In the USSR nuclear industry the failures with UF6 emission
in which result 3 persons were died took place».
[The letter of Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
№2510/8197-03-20 from 7/24/2003].