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Publish date: September 1, 1997
Written by: Igor Kudrik
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Negotiations were held in Dehli earlier this week, while the Russian Minister for Nuclear Energy, Victor Michailov, visited India. The ministry reached an agreement with India to launch the construction of a Russian designed nuclear power plant based on VVER-1000 reactors. The agreement is expected to enter contract in the near future, adding to Russia’s new nuclear export drive. Earlier, Russia has reached agreements to start construction of nuclear power plants in China and Iran.
Michailov claimed that a number of countries, such as Indonesia, Malaysia and other in South-Eastern Asia, have expressed their interest in Russia nuclear engineering, in particular in the floating nuclear power plants.
India already has ten nuclear reactors in operation, of western designs.
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.
After years of inaction, Germany is working on its Carbon Management Strategy to resolve how CCS can play a role in climate action in industry. At the end of February, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action published first key points and a proposal to amend the law Kohlenstoffdioxid Speicherungsgesetz (KSpG). Bellona Deutschland, who was actively involved in the previous stakeholder dialogue submitted a statement in the association hearing.