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: November 21, 2005
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Members of the Duma have been concerned of late about air pollution in big Russian cities. They put an offer on the table to substitute petroleum with environmentally clean fuel, raise taxes on old cars and forbid import of second-hand cars to reduce smog and dirty air.
According to the committee chairman, Vladimir Grachev, 60 percent of the Russian population lives in high level air pollution. Deputies of the State Duma see two main reasons for ecological crises in big cities: strong run-out of vehicles and the low quality petroleum produced in Russia.
Deputies have offered to toughen legislation governing oil refineries and to make operation of environmentally unfriendly vehicles expensive.
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.