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Publish date: February 10, 2005
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The police forces found six metal containers marked with radiation signs under a hay cock in the house in Ishun village of Krasnoperekopsk region in Crimea Autonomous republic, Ukraine, Kontext-Media reported in the end of January.
The radiation exceeded the normal level in 300 times, so 16 inhabitants of three houses were temporarily evacuated. All of them had no idea that they had lived beside strong radiation source during 5 months. The police discovered that a man living in the house stole containers at his work. The specialists of Radon Company came from Odessa to decommission the containers.
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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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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.