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Publish date: October 22, 2008
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The tests, conducted at the Krylov Institute’s frozen pool included simulating the characteristics of high latitude sailing, including though open water, as well as in conditions of packed ice.
According to the Institute, the Iceburg construction bureau, other industry organizations and Finnish consultants are working on a technical project that will be completed in 2009. After this, keel laying for the new nuclear icebreaker will begin, most likely at the Baltic Shipyard, where most of Russia’s nuclear icebreaker fleet was built, b-port.com reported.
Recently, Sergei Kiriyenko, chief of Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom said that engineering work on new generation icebreakers would be complete and federal money invested by 2009 for construction of the vessels.
“Now it is extremely important for us to understand the entire icebreaker development programme for the next 10 to 15 years ahead in order that we can take into account the number of vessels in the Arctic and on the way to Sevmorput,” where nuclear vessels are decommissioned, Kiriyenko said in a meeting with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin last week. “Accordning to preliminary evaluations, it will be necessary over the next few years to invest in not less than three to four icebreakers,” Kiriyenko said.
Recent attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant "mark the beginning of a new and gravely dangerous front of the war," the UN atomic agency's director general said last week.
After years of inaction, Germany is working on its Carbon Management Strategy to resolve how CCS can play a role in climate action in industry. At the end of February, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action published first key points and a proposal to amend the law Kohlenstoffdioxid Speicherungsgesetz (KSpG). Bellona Deutschland, who was actively involved in the previous stakeholder dialogue submitted a statement in the association hearing.
In the midst of a global discussion on whether natural gas should be used as a transitional fuel and whether emissions from its extraction, production, transport and use are significantly less than those from other fossil fuels, Russia has developed ambitious plans to increase its own production of liquified natural gas (LNG) in the Arctic – a region with 75% of proven gas reserves in Russia – to raise its share in the international gas trade.
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our main focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution risks and climate change.