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Publish date: December 5, 2006
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Sergey Kiriyenko said that it is a question nowadays how to use the system and potential of the ten closed cities in the development of nuclear industry. According to Kiriyenko, each city is to choose its own way in the future, either to shift gradually to the civil production and “open doors for business”, while the other cities like the Russian nuclear centres “would be closed forever and work for the defence capacity of Russia”, ITAR-TASS reported.
Russia is formally withdrawing from a landmark environmental agreement that channeled billions in international funding to secure the Soviet nuclear legacy, leaving undone some of the most radioactively dangerous projects and burning one more bridge of potential cooperation with the West.
While Moscow pushes ahead with major oil, gas and mining projects in the Arctic—bringing more pollution to the fragile region—the spoils of these undertakings are sold to fuel Russia’s war economy, Bellona’s Ksenia Vakhrusheva told a side event at the COP 29, now underway in Baku, Azerbaijan.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
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