Bellona nuclear digest. March 2024
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
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Publish date: September 21, 2005
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"I have known Yevgeny Olegovich for a long time and very well, we had close contacts in joint work over 30 years. He is a very skilled, effective and purposeful specialist," Rumyantsev said on Radio Mayak on September 17. "It is necessary to return Adamov to Russia and give him an opportunity to answer all questions authorities want to ask him."
The former atomic energy minister was detained in Bern, Switzerland on May 2 at the request of the US authorities who accuse him of misappropriating $9 million that were allocated by the US Department of Energy for boosting security at Russian nuclear power plants and other safeguards.
In an interview with Russian journalists on September 6 Adamov called the US "absurd." He believes his case is a link in a chain of the global intrigue aimed at "weakening of the Russian state" and eventually at the "occupation of Russia."
Both the United States and Russia are seeking extradition of Adamov. The Swiss Federal Justice Department has already considered a decision that Adamov may be extradited to Russia. Now the Justice Department is considering the issue of his possible extradition to the United States, Itar-Tass reported.
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.
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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.