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Algeria demands France’s nuclear waste site maps

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Algeria reproaches France for failing to provide the registers and maps of the nuclear waste burial sites at In Ekker and Reggane. Algiers believes Paris is evading its criminal responsibility, according to TSA.

Algeria is demanding that France provide the registers and maps of the sites where nuclear waste was buried at In Ekker and Reggane. Algiers accuses Paris of «evading» its «criminal responsibility», the Algerian media outlet TSA reports.

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