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Publish date: August 21, 2007
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The first agreement covers the design and construction of a new enclosure to surround reactor 4 to replace the quickly-assembled and now-disintegrating “sarcophagus” that was put into place after the 1986 accident.
In April 1986, reactor number 4 at Chernobyl exploded, sending radiation across a large region of what is now the Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia in the worst nuclear power accident ever. According to most reports, 40 radionucleotides were released into the environment.
The second EBRD grant agreement will allow Chernobyl to sign a contract for the completion of an interim storage for spent fuel from the still operational units 1, 2 and 3 at Chernobyl.
Plans for the storage facility are said to be 190 metres wide and 200 metres long, with a completion date of 2015, edie.net reported. The steel structure will weigh 18,000 tons and will have a half-cylinder shape, the news wire 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.