Environment - Transboundary Movement of Waste

China National Nuclear Corporation signed an agreement with a French nuclear giant on jointly building a commercial nuclear fuel reprocessing and recycling plant, reportedly in Gansu near the Gobi Desert, which is able to handle waste that China may import from abroad. Strong oppositions have been voiced against the project, with a Gansu scholar saying, "For the sake of the national interest, Gansu can sacrifice itself and reprocess some nuclear waste generated by Chinese nuclear reactors.... But please, don't let the foreign waste come in. They will kill us."