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: February 21, 2005
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The authority now wants the owner of the rig, the Ocean Rig Company, to go through all safety routines before drilling can be resumed. On February 8, 6 cubic meters of so-called BOP-substances were dropped to sea, and on February 16, 4 cubic meters of drilling waste water ran into the sea after a technical disorder. Head of the Petroleum Safety Authority, Magne Ognedal, says the incidents do not pose a threat to ecology in the region, but that the pollution still is considered a serious violation of regulations, daily Dagens Naeringsliv 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.