<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2d222ffc-a7a8-40a9-8fa6-39297e4431e9/7D993902-AB60-4C4F-AFE5-DC7A03D30448/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,654969,00.html" href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,654969,00.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.spiegel.de</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,654969,00.html"><H2>Nuclear Materials Stored In Siberian Parking Lots</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,654969,00.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.spiegel.de/img/7C4FC96A-60A3-41CC-A8BD-83AF4D26D61C" alt="French nuclear reactors: France is highly dependent on nuclear energy for its power needs. But a new documentary film is unleashing a new debate about the issue of nuclear waste. " /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,654969,00.html"><STRONG>A French documentary has revealed that radioactive materials from nuclear power plants are being being stored in containers in a Siberian parking lot. Meanwhile the largest power company in Europe, France's EDF, which sent the materials there, says it is not responsible.</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,654969,00.html"><DIV class="spInfoBox"> <H4>MAP</H4> <P>Tomsk 7 Nuclear Facilities in Siberia</P><P><A href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Tomsk-7&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hl=en&hq=&hnear=Sewersk&t=h&ll=56.618276,84.86475&spn=0.098606,0.110378&z=13&source=embed">Larger map view</A></p> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,654969,00.html">documentary makers also point out that the situation revolves around a legal loophole -- recycled uranium or plutonium is not classified as nuclear waste. By law it is merely "radioactive material." Which is why the international shipping of such waste products is not illegal</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,654969,00.html">What we really wanted to show was that we do not recycle 96 percent of this material, as some people pretend we do.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,654969,00.html">if (these materials) are so useful, should we really be sending them to the Russians? 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