Balancing competitiveness and climate objectives: Bellona Europa’s insights on the Draghi Report
Introduction Competitiveness has been the dominating topic in EU political discussions in recent months and is set to be a key focus of the upcomi...
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Publish date: May 4, 1998
Written by: Thomas Nilsen
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Adamov is going to meet with Admiral Oleg Yerofeyev, the commander of the Northern fleet, and other officers working with nuclear and radiation safety. They will also study the condition of coastal and floating technical bases, where radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel is stored. In addition to the fleets officers there are also plans to meet with the leaders of the Murmansk and Archangels regions. Yesterday, Admiral Yerofeyev visited the town of Bodoe in northern Norway where he stated that it should be a civilian responsibility to handle spent nuclear fuel from the fleets submarines.
Deputies of the State Duma, senior officials of the Defence Ministry and the Economics and Finance Ministry will also participate in the discussion of these problems. Last week Bellona Web wrote that the level of radioactive contamination in the sediments outside some of the naval bases and military shipyards has increased dramatic in the last three years, due to bad maintenance of the storage facilities for spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste.
Introduction Competitiveness has been the dominating topic in EU political discussions in recent months and is set to be a key focus of the upcomi...
Russia is a world leader in the construction of nuclear power plants abroad. Despite the sanctions pressure on Russia since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, its nuclear industry has remained virtually untouched.
Today, the Bellona Foundation is launching the establishment of the Center for Marine Restoration in Kabelvåg, Lofoten. At the same time, collaboration agreements related to the center were signed with Norrøna, the University of Tromsø, the Lofoten Council and Blue Harvest Technologies
To ensure that Germany achieves its goal of climate neutrality by 2045, negative emissions are necessary, as depicted in the global IPCC scenarios.