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September 20, 2023
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September 20, 2023
https://bellona.org/news/nuclear-issues/2023-09-andreyeva-bay-cleanup-slows-to-a-snails-pace-since-invasion-of-ukraine 18 Sept 23 Charles Digges In 2017, Russia began a landmark project ridding one of its most dangerous Cold War relics of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste. The effort to clean up Andreyeva Bay — a submarine base near Murmansk uniquely positioned to contaminate the Barents Sea — was the culmination of a…
August 28, 2023
Hungary excepted, Central and Eastern Europe is eager to end its reliance on Russia for nuclear fuel and technology.
June 4, 2023
It’s something the world nuclear energy community never thought it would see — and thus never prepared for. June 1, 2023 by Charles Digges https://bellona.org/news/nuclear-issues/2023-06-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-report For a year and a half, the world has bourn witness to an unprecedented spectacle: the military occupation of a civilian atomic energy station. The March 2022 seizure by Russian troops of…
April 29, 2023
A huge steel and concrete sarcophagus covers the site of the meltdown. Under its dome, called the New Safe Confinement, lie 200 tons of lava-like nuclear fuel, 30 tons of highly contaminated dust and 16 tons of uranium and plutonium that continue to release high levels of radiation. April 26, 2023 by Charles Digges https://bellona.org/news/nuclear-issues/2023-04-chernobyl-anniversar A little…
December 5, 2022
When Russia assumed the rotating chairmanship of the Arctic Council in 2021, Moscow brought the environmentally minded eight-nation body an […]
March 1, 2021
Bellona.org Russian Nuclear Power, status as of January, 2021 Russian Nuclear Power, status as of January, 2021 Published on March 1, 2021 For another consecutive year, Russia’s civilian nuclear industry is expanding. While the Soviet Union built reactors in countries all over Eastern Europe, Russia’s Rosatom is looking to go global. Russia is currently biggest exporter of nuclear power plants in the world, offering sizable loans to foreign governments looking to get in on the nuclea...
December 18, 2020
Rashid Alimov, who helped sound alarms on Russia’s radiation dangers, succumbs to covid-19 Rashid Alimov, a prominent environmentalist who led vigorous efforts to inform Russians of radiation dangers and campaigned for clean air and against dangerous landfills in St Petersburg, died Thursday of complications related to covid-19. He was 40 years old. Rashid Alimov, who helped sound alarms on Russia’s radiation dangers, succumbs to covid-19 Published on Rashid Alimov Credit:...