The Arctic as a resource base
What’s wrong with Russia’s official documents on the Arctic.
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Publish date: April 28, 1997
Written by: Igor Kudrik
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The project includes installation of measuring equipment in the vicinity of the plant, to record the radiation levels. The updated data will be placed on the Web, reports Murmansk newspaper Polyarnaya Pravda.
This is one of a number of measures undertaken by the administration of the plant aimed at calming down local and international concern about the power plant’s ageing reactor installations.
What’s wrong with Russia’s official documents on the Arctic.
As uranium supplies from Russia fall under the shadow of potential sanctions, and while Ukraine’s allies look to wean themselves off nuclear fuel produced by Moscow’s Rosatom corporation, owners of left-for-dead mines in the US are looking to revive their deposits.
The European Union doubled its purchases of Russian nuclear fuel in 2023, data from Eurostat and the UN’s international trade service Comtrade show.
The output of Russian nuclear power plants in 2023 decreased by 2.8% compared to 2022. A decrease in output occurred for the first time in 10 years a...