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: January 30, 2007
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According to the commission’s conclusions, the project materials correspond with Russian environmental legislation. The commission admitted environmental impact of the gas pipeline building is allowable.
The commission’s decision is valid for 10 years, RusEnergy reports. Konstantin Pulikovsky – leader of RosTeckNadzor ordered to carry out environmental expert evaluation on materials of Nord Stream feasibility study changes. The changes are connected to the plans to increase gas export up to 55 billion cubic meters a year.
Nord Stream is a gas pipeline. It is to be built through the Baltic Sea and connect Russian coast with Baltic coast in Germany. Its length is 1,200 kilometers. The pipeline is planned to be put in operation in 2010. The capacity of the first line of the pipe is planned to be 27.5 billion cubic meters a year. Building of the second line of the gas pipeline will increase delivery of gas to 55 billion cubic meters a year.
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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