April 17, 1998 Nuclear Agreements No money for implementation State Duma speaker Gennadiy Seleznev told Interfax on April 14 the ratification of the START-2 treaty would be debated before the end of the […]
April 16, 1998 Radwaste storage at nuclear fuel cycle plants in Russia Construction of plutonium storage site continues despite of review: Mayak goes its way Construction at a U.S.-Russian facility to store radioactive material from dismantled nuclear warheads in the Urals continued April 15 […]
April 16, 1998 Nuclear Agreements Commissioning of liquid waste processing facility in Murmansk postponed The scheduled for April commissioning of liquid waste processing facility at Atomflot in Murmansk was postponed till October this year. The […]
April 16, 1998 Nuclear Agreements Iran attempts to acquire Russian ballistic missile technology Russian minister for atomic energy intends to sign a new contract with Iran on constructing a nuclear reactor for research purposes. Last […]
April 15, 1998 Accidents and incidents, Radwaste storage at nuclear fuel cycle plants in Russia March incident statistics for Russian nuclear plants Two engineers at Bilibino Nuclear Power Plant were exposed to high level of radiation on March 14, reported ITAR-TASS with a reference to […]
April 15, 1998 Nuclear Russia Emergency shut-down at Ignalina The second reactor unit at Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant in Lithuania was shut down on April 2, reported Interfax news agency. The radiation […]
April 15, 1998 Russian Navy 1998: Three subs to be scrapped, one to be built Severodvinsk shipyards plan to scrap three nuclear powered submarines and launch new Akula-class submarine by the end of 1998.
April 15, 1998 Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Minatom proposes to store damaged spent fuel on Novaya Zemlya Two Minatom research institutes submitted a feasibility study outlining the general plan for handling maritime radwaste and spent nuclear […]
April 15, 1998 Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, Russian Navy Andreeva Bay may become civilian The governor of Murmansk county filed a proposal to the Government of Russian Federation to create a locally based financial-industrial […]
April 14, 1998 Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Rossiya is back in operation The nuclear powered icebreaker “Rossiya” was put back in operation after 3,5-year repairs. “Sovetskiy Souz” […]
April 14, 1998 Nuclear Russia Kola NPP to operate up to 2014 and beyond Kola Nuclear Power Plant received license from State Nuclear Inspection (GAN) to operate the 3-d reactor unit till the year 2011, reported […]
April 13, 1998 Radwaste storage at nuclear fuel cycle plants in Russia Russia stops construction of plutonium storage site The Russian Goskomekologia (State Committee on Environment) stopped the construction of the U.S. funded plutonium storage site in Mayak on […]
April 13, 1998 Nuclear Russia Reactor Shut Down at Kola Nuclear Power Plant Reactor No. 2 at the Kola Nuclear Power Plant was shut down after a technician had made a mistake in the inspection procedure on April 9th.
March 27, 1998 Nuclear Russia Leningrad NPP reactor emergency shut down: Information made available one week after The second reactor unit at Leningrad nuclear power plant shut down on March 13, reported the local environmental group Green World. The […]
March 23, 1998 Radwaste storage at nuclear fuel cycle plants in Russia Money for Tomsk accident clean up misused Two-hundred-thousand USD allocated for the clean up programme after the 1993 Tomsk accident were misused by officials in charge, reported […]
March 20, 1998 Nuclear Agreements U.S. again calls for Russian START-2 ratification The White House said last week it wanted Russia’s parliament to ratify the START-2 agreement before the next U.S.-Russian summit […]
March 20, 1998 Radwaste storage at nuclear fuel cycle plants in Russia Closed Nuclear cities deprived of financial privileges The Russian State Duma has passed amendments to the Law on Special Economic Status for the closed cities, most of them nuclear centres, thus […]
March 14, 1998 Nuclear Iran Russia proceeds with Iranian nuclear power plant Russia will press ahead with its project to build a nuclear power plant in Iran despite opposition by the United States, news agencies […]
March 14, 1998 Nuclear Agreements, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Radioactive pipes stolen in Chernobyl A number of radioactive pipes have been stolen from the premises of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
March 12, 1998 Russian Navy Severodvinsk plans to ship spent fuel in May: Year’s first nuclear transport train leaves Murmansk Spent fuel from nuclear submarines is to be shipped from Severodvinsk shipyards to Mayak in Siberia for reprocessing in May this year. […]
