Sweden allocates €35,000 for Georgia’s radioactive waste management
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The Swedish government will support Georgia to safely and effectively implement a radioactive waste management plan.
Today the Ministry of Environment Protection of Georgia signed a cooperation agreement with the Swedish Radiation Regulatory body, which will allocate €35,000 (97,000 GEL) to Georgia to adopt a 15-year Strategy and Action Plan regarding radioactive waste management.
The Strategy will be drafted jointly by Georgian and Swedish specialists in line with high European standards.
Once the specialists analysed the current situation in Georgia and how it managed radioactive waste products, future activities will be planned to ensure radioactive materials were safely recycled or stored.
The Radioactive Waste Management National Strategy will be approved by the Georgian Government before January 4, 2017.
Georgia marks another achievement in global nuclear non-proliferation efforts by removing 1.83 kilograms of high enriched uranium (HEU).
Georgia is preparing to host the Foreign Minister of Sweden, Margot Wallstrom. Wallstrom will pay an official visit to capital Tbilisi on February 8.
"Sweden is a strong supporter of Georgia's continued European integration within the Eastern Partnership and [its] ambitious Association Agreement.”
Georgia has been granted €10 million to improve the country's solid waste management system in its 64 municipalities and reduce the health hazards caused by unsanitary waste handling.
Georgia’s Agriculture and Environment Ministry, with the involvement of Swedish experts, has carried out a check of radiation levels in Guria region, in the country’s west, on the former territory of the Tea and Subtropical Institute.
Sweden will participate in the NATO-Georgia military drills in 2019, Georgian and Swedish defence ministers announced in Tbilisi today.
All manufacturers in Georgia who place a product onto the market will be obliged to reduce negative environmental impact that may follow its production, use, waste recovery or disposal.
A total of 566 cases of violation of waste management code were recorded in 2018 in Georgia, announces the Environment Protection Supervision Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment Protection.
The Georgian State Security Service has arrested two individuals in the city of Kutaisi, western Georgia for the attempted sale of a radioactive substance Americium-241 for 300,000 euros. The agency has reported earlier today that even the level of radiation detected on the container could seriously damage heath.