By contrast U.S. exports to China consist largely of agricultural commodities, minerals, and even more humiliatingly waste paper and scrap metal and as befits such low-valued Second Worldish goods travel by sea.

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Areva has implemented a plan to stop radioactive waste rock and scrap metal from getting into the local community, but the problem is clear.

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