Bellona nuclear digest. March 2024
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
News
CO2 in 5 minutes
What is CO2? Why is it so important to reduce CO2 emissions? Learn all the basics of CO2 from our factsheet in 5 minutes. Read more.
CO2 capture and storage
CO2 emissions can be reduced significantly if CO2 Capture and Storage (CCS) is implemented globally. CCS is the process where CO2 is cleaned from large point sources, followed by transport of the CO2 to a safe underground storage location where CO2 is injected for long term safe storage. Read more.
CO2 capture
Capture of CO2 is the name of the process where CO2 is separated from flue gas. There are several technologies for capture, or cleaning, of CO2. Read more.
CO2 storage
Safe storage in suitable geological formation under the ground is possible. By careful characterization and selection of possible storage locations it is possible to store CO2 without leakages. Read more.
CO2 storage in the Utsira formation
CO2 has been stored underground in the Utsira formation in the North Sea for ten years without leakages. Read more.
ZEP
Bellona participates in the European Technology Platform for Zero Emission Fossil Fuel Power Plants (ZEP). This is Bellona’s main CCS project, and we regard this project as a very important tool to establish a wide deployment of CCS projects. Read more.
CDM
Bellona has suggested that CCS should be part of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which is a mechanism in the Kyoto Protocol to ensure reduction in global CO2 emissions. But how does CDM works? Read more.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
Russian president Vladimir Putin has told the United Nations atomic energy watchdog that Russia plans to restart Ukraine’s embattled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, currently occupied by Russian troops and technicians, fueling worries about a serious nuclear accident on the front lines of a grinding military conflict.
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 | Brussels, Belgium – Today, the European Parliament approved the newly revised Construction Products regulation (CPR)...
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.