The Arctic as a resource base
What’s wrong with Russia’s official documents on the Arctic.
News
Publish date: May 5, 1998
Written by: Igor Kudrik
News
Worried that the $250 million storage facility at Mayak nuclear complex being built in the Chelyabinsk region with Russian and U.S. funds is in violation of Russian environmental laws, inspectors from the State Committee on the Environment on March 27 ordered a halt to construction.
According to Chelyabinsk based news agency Ural-Press, Mayak has settled down all the formalities with the State Committee of the Environment and the halt-order was lifted this week.
As it was reported earlier by The Moscow Times the construction works at Mayak were never stopped. The order from the State Envirocommittee was ignored and the construction proceeded as planned.
In the long run, the paper war between Mayak and the State Envirocommittee came to a peace agreement. The envirocommittee inspectors granted Mayak permission to proceed with the construction.
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...