In February, prosecutors accused the director of Mayak, Russia's main wasteprocessing plant in the Ural Mountains, of allowing tons ofradioactive nuclear waste to flow into a nearby river.
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In view of the radioactive nature of thorium, a hazard is posed from waste produced in the processingof rare earth oxides, which contains it.
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Its services include engineering, decontamination, radioactivewasteprocessing, and removal, transportation, and disposal ofwaste for closed nuclear power plants and former weapons sites.