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Russia’s nuclear industry is expanding

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Russia’s civilian nuclear industry is expanding. Where the Soviet Union built reactors in countries all over Eastern Europe, Russia is now taking it one step further – to a global scale. Russia is the biggest exporter of nuclear power plants in the world, offering big, favorable loans to governments that want to strengthen their energy production, so that they in turn can buy “pre-packaged” nuclear power plants from Russia.

In this report, Bellona analyses the status of the nuclear power production industry in Russia and the prospects for its future, both in Russia itself and abroad. We give an overview of former, current and upcoming projects, showing in turn how Russia is becoming the foremost proponent for a continuation of the nuclear age.

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The status and future projections of LNG production and use in the Russian Arctic 

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 liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the Arctic – a region with 75% of the country's proven gas reserves – to raise its share in the international gas trade.