Bellona nuclear digest. March 2024
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
News
Publish date: October 30, 1998
Written by: Thomas Nilsen
News
Three weeks ago, Leningrad nuclear power plant was sued by the company Rosvooruzheniye KBR, which holds two million roubles in promissory notes issued the nuclear power plant. The Arbitrage Court of St. Petersburg agreed to open the bankruptcy case, but on Thursday October 29, the court said they need a financial analysis before they can continue with the court hearings.
According to St. Petersburg Times, the law firm Grigoryev & Co, which represent Leningrad nuclear power plant, says the economical analysis could take up to three months. The law firm said that the nuclear power plant’s balance of claims and liabilities is positive. The plant has a debt receivable of 3,9 billion roubles ($224 million) and accounts payable of 3,8 billion roubles effective August 1.
"The bankruptcy of Leningrad nuclear power plant, which slowly pays off its debt, would be unfavourable for both the company and its creditors," said Aleksandr Gregoryev, representative of the law firm on behalf of the nuclear power plant.
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.