Penza, 18 January 2012. PenzaNews. The train transporting nuclear waste from the Leningrad atomic power station to Closed Administrative Territorial Unit Zheleznogorsk or Krasnoyarsk-26 may pass through Penza.

According to “New region”, ROSATOM plans to transport about 22 thousand tons of spent nuclear fuel to Siberia until 2025. It means that three echelons, each carrying 80 tons of spent radioactive waste, will arrive in Zheleznogorsk every two months.

According to ecologists, transportation of spent plutonium is a big hazard not only for St Petersburg and Zheleznogorsk, but also for Moscow, Penza, Samara, Kirov, Perm, Ekatirenburg, Tyumen, Omsk and Novosibirsk.

Experts reiterate that spent nuclear fuel is the most dangerous kind of waste, a by-product of the operation of nuclear power plants.

Vladimir Slivyak, co-chairman of group “Ecozaschita” opposing transportation of hazardous and nuclear materials since 1998, believes that Germany, Japan and the U.S. where people object to the storage of hazardous waste in their own territories will use the nuclear burial ground in Krasnoyarsk in the future too.