May 14, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear USA US representatives vote to revive Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump The US House of Representatives last week approved an election-year bill to revive the mothballed nuclear waste dump at Nevada’s Yucca […]
May 10, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Ukraine prepares to handle its spent nuclear fuel independent of Moscow Ukraine is preparing to reshuffle how it handles its spent nuclear fuel as the reprocessing contracts Kiev has with Moscow reach their end […]
May 9, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Bellona visits Russia’s floating nuclear power plant at sea After years of secrecy surrounding the Akademik Lomonosov, Russia’s controversial floating nuclear power plant, Rosatom, Russia’s state […]
May 8, 2018 Climate change EPA emails show huge effort to shield Scott Pruitt from the prying eyes of US taxpayers As corruption allegations swirl around Scott Pruitt, the Trump administration’s head of the Environmental Protection Agency, numerous […]
May 3, 2018 Arctic, Arctic Transport and Shipping, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Rosatom’s Northern Sea Route legislation ignites arguments Disagreements are erupting about which agency will control what after Rosatom, Russia’s nuclear corporation, began seeking nearly […]
May 3, 2018 Energy storage, Future energy system, Renewable energy Battery production in Innlandet county, Norway Access to cheap, renewable energy and specialized expertise creates great business opportunities for a large-scale production of high […]
May 2, 2018 Arctic, Climate change Finnish nonprofit group seeks to melt Donald Trump’s face A Finnish environmental group has come up with a novel way of getting the notoriously climate-change denying US President Donald Trump to […]
May 1, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia A divide Cyprus unites to oppose Russian-built nuclear plant Protestors from across the political divide in Cyprus staged a vocal demonstration last Thursday against a nuclear power plant Russia is […]
April 30, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russia’s floating nuclear plant sets sail for Murmansk Churning up a wake of mixed emotions, the **Akademik Lomonosov,** Russia’s floating nuclear power plant, set sail from St. Petersburg […]
April 27, 2018 Nuclear issues It’s time to stop paying for the Halden Reactor’s operation and start paying for it’s decommissioning Despite numerous efforts, there are still major shortcomings in the way Norway secures its nuclear waste, and the government instead […]
April 25, 2018 Electric mobility, Transport Murmansk tries to bring spark to electric car ownership To boost the number of electric cars in Northwest Russia, the government in Murmansk is weighing incentives it can offer its drivers, like […]
April 24, 2018 Renewable energy, Wind Murmansk officials weigh renewable energy legislation Officials in Murmansk are testing the waters on legislation that would spur the development of renewable energy – particularly on how that […]
April 23, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia South African women who stopped secret Russian nuclear deal win this year’s Goldman Prize Two South African activists who stopped a Russian nuclear deal that was tinged with corruption were among the winners of this year’s […]
April 19, 2018 Climate change, International climate conferences Trump’s environmental attack dog doesn’t have much of a bite, thank goodness As corruption scandals blaze around Scott Pruitt, the Trump administration’s designee to run the Environmental Protection Agency, it’s […]
April 17, 2018 Industrial Pollution, The Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine Major Russian polluter pledges to turn over a ‘green’ leaf on national television In a wide ranging appearance on Russian national television, Vladimir Potanin, the president of Norilsk Nickel, a long-time, heavy-duty […]
April 16, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Nuclear USA Under lash of new sanctions, Moscow threatens to upend nuclear power trade with US In a sign of worsening relations between Moscow and Washington, a draft bill before State Duma, the lower house of Russian parliament, would […]
April 16, 2018 Climate change, Transport Letter: Environmental safeguards needed for CCU fuels in the Renewable Energy Directive In light of the trilogue on the RED II taking place in early May, Bellona has, together with Transport&Environment, Zero Waste Europe, […]
April 13, 2018 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change, Industrial Pollution Building with Low Carbon Cement is Affordable Recent studies looking at cement production, which accounts for around 5% of global CO2 emissions (ECA, 2018), show that costs associated […]
April 12, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russia’s decommissioning of historic reactor hobbled by bumbling secrecy The reactor at Obninsk, Russia, long hailed as the first nuclear installation in the world ever used to commercially produce electricity, […]
April 10, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Nuclear Power Wildly Popular in Russia, Independent Poll Shows Nearly 74 percent of Russian citizens want their government to maintain and develop the country’s nuclear industry, a sector they consider […]
