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Publish date: October 23, 1997
Written by: Thomas Nilsen
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Several projects on nuclear security on the Kola Peninsula have been postponed lately, due to western companies demanding exemption from responsibility in case their equipment should be involved in accidents at the nuclear installations. Disagreement on the responsibility question caused the Lepse project in Murmansk to enter a stand-still several months ago. Several other projects involving delivery of western security equipment to Russian nuclear power plants have been delayed due to similar disagreements.
–The Russian ministry for nuclear energy – Minatom – has recommended that the Duma exempts from import duty all western equipment delivered to Russian nuclear plants and aimed at improving security, and that the companies delivering such equipment shall bear no responsibility if something goes wrong after the equipment has been put to use, says Vitaly Shelest. He adds that a decision on this should be taken by the Duma before the year’s end.
French company SGN, which has developed special equipment to lift out the used nuclear fuel from radwaste storage ship Lepse in Murmansk, has put exemption from responsibility as a required condition for applying the equipment.
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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.