The Mongolian embassy in Vienna has flatly denied that it
has been in talks about importing nuclear waste from other countries. The
denial comes after a report that Japan and the United States planned to build a
spent nuclear fuel storage facility in Mongolia. The country”s 2009 nuclear
energy law “does not envisage import of nuclear waste from other
countries,” said the statement from the embassy in the Austrian capital,
where the U.N. nuclear agency is based.

The statement was posted on the embassy”s website after a Japanese
daily newspaper said Japan and the
United States planned to jointly build a spent nuclear fuel storage facility in
Mongolia.