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: September 8, 1998
Written by: Thomas Nilsen
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Itar-Tass reported Monday that workers at the two nuclear facilities in Mayak and Arzamas-16 had already gone on strike. Both facilities are involved in the Russian nuclear weapons program. According to The Moscow Times, nuclear workers from all over the country will join in a round of protests in Moscow this week. The Russian Union of Nuclear Industry Workers says that hungry nuclear workers and lack of funding could lead to a nuclear accident and the collapse of Russia’s nuclear defense industry.
The Union says that its members will stop work altogether if, after Wednesday’s one-hour strike, they do not receive their back pay. Nuclear industry workers have gone without salary from three to ten months. More and more nuclear industry workers are included in the list of unpaid employees. Last week, Bellona Web reported that the employees at the nuclear-powered ice-breaker base "Atomflot" in Murmansk and the shipyard workers in Severodvinsk have not received their salaries since July.
The state owes more than $421 million in back pay The state owes more than $421 million in back pay to workers in the nuclear defense sector. In addition, employees at the civilian nuclear power plants are also protesting due to lack of salaries.
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.