Balancing competitiveness and climate objectives: Bellona Europa’s insights on the Draghi Report
Introduction Competitiveness has been the dominating topic in EU political discussions in recent months and is set to be a key focus of the upcomi...
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Publish date: October 22, 2008
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The tests, conducted at the Krylov Institute’s frozen pool included simulating the characteristics of high latitude sailing, including though open water, as well as in conditions of packed ice.
According to the Institute, the Iceburg construction bureau, other industry organizations and Finnish consultants are working on a technical project that will be completed in 2009. After this, keel laying for the new nuclear icebreaker will begin, most likely at the Baltic Shipyard, where most of Russia’s nuclear icebreaker fleet was built, b-port.com reported.
Recently, Sergei Kiriyenko, chief of Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom said that engineering work on new generation icebreakers would be complete and federal money invested by 2009 for construction of the vessels.
“Now it is extremely important for us to understand the entire icebreaker development programme for the next 10 to 15 years ahead in order that we can take into account the number of vessels in the Arctic and on the way to Sevmorput,” where nuclear vessels are decommissioned, Kiriyenko said in a meeting with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin last week. “Accordning to preliminary evaluations, it will be necessary over the next few years to invest in not less than three to four icebreakers,” Kiriyenko said.
Introduction Competitiveness has been the dominating topic in EU political discussions in recent months and is set to be a key focus of the upcomi...
Russia is a world leader in the construction of nuclear power plants abroad. Despite the sanctions pressure on Russia since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, its nuclear industry has remained virtually untouched.
Today, the Bellona Foundation is launching the establishment of the Center for Marine Restoration in Kabelvåg, Lofoten. At the same time, collaboration agreements related to the center were signed with Norrøna, the University of Tromsø, the Lofoten Council and Blue Harvest Technologies
To ensure that Germany achieves its goal of climate neutrality by 2045, negative emissions are necessary, as depicted in the global IPCC scenarios.