February 17, 1998 Access to information, Russian Navy The Russian Far East Governor seeks eviroloans in Japan The Governor and the Chairman of Deputies Council of Primorsky county have applied to the government of Japan last week with request for […]
February 11, 1998 Russian Navy Two Oscar-I to be scrapped SEVERODVINSK (Bellona Web): Two cruse missile Oscar-I class nuclear-powered submarines are scheduled for decommissioning shortly. The […]
January 29, 1998 Accidents and incidents Nuclear submarine incident in Zapadnaya Litsa Five sailors were injured during an incident on board a nuclear-powered submarine at the naval base in Zapadnaya Litsa in the morning of […]
January 23, 1998 Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, Russian Navy US will help Russian navy with a transport vessel for spent fuel The U.S. want to help the Russian Northern Fleet with securing of spent fuel from nuclear submarines. According to the U.S. vice-secretary […]
January 22, 1998 Nuclear Russia Kursk NPP reactor shuts down A nuclear reactor at Kursk nuclear power plant in the central Russia was shut down on Wednesday last week. Nobody was hurt and there was no […]
January 16, 1998 Nikitin Case Nikitin’s lawyers file petition to dismiss the case Yesterday, Nikitin’s lawyers filed a petition requesting the dismissal the case against the award-winning environmentalist. According […]
January 15, 1998 Nuclear Russia Russia signed nuclear deal with China The well-expected contract between Russia and China on delivering nuclear power plant was signed on December 29, 1997. The contract turned […]
January 15, 1998 Nuclear Agreements Children find radwaste: Policemen get exposed to radiation Grozny — A group of children found a highly radioactive source in an old canister near the capital of the Chechen republic, reported […]
January 12, 1998 Nuclear Agreements U.S. urges ratification of START-II: Duma may consider the issue in 1998 In spite of numerous attempts undertaken both by President Yeltsin and his administration to persuade Russian Duma members to ratify the […]
January 9, 1998 Russian Navy Gepard still under construction The nuclear-powered Akula-class submarine Gepard is still under construction at the Severodvinsk shipyard Sevmash. The sub’s crew is […]
January 1, 1998 Nikitin Case Amnesty International sends observer to trial of Aleksandr Nikitin 1998-01-01 12:00 News Release Issued by the International Secretariat of Amnesty International News Service 199/98 AI INDEX: EUR 46/27/98 13 […]
December 31, 1997 Nikitin Case The Nikitin Case 1997 news archive 1997-12-10 23 members of US Congress urge Yeltsin 23 members of US Congress urge Yeltsin to order a thorough review of the Nikitin case In a […]
December 15, 1997 Radwaste storage at nuclear fuel cycle plants in Russia Russia to Sell Uranium on World Market Russia’s Ministry of Nuclear Energy announced it would terminate a 10-year contract with the United States and begin to sell uranium […]
December 9, 1997 Nuclear Agreements 8 more capsules with radioactive materials discovered in Georgia Radioactive source was discovered on the premises of former Soviet rocket base of Vaziani in Georgia, not far from the capital Tbilisi, […]
December 9, 1997 Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel May be stored on Novaya Zemlya Minatom plans to build a new facility on Novaya Zemlya to store spent fuel from RBMK reactors, reported Nuclear Engineering International. […]
December 8, 1997 Russian Navy Year’s second nuclear train left Murmansk On December 4, special train carrying spent nuclear fuel left Murmansk nuclear-powered ice-breakers fleet base
December 8, 1997 Nuclear Russia Accident at Novovoronezh NPP Last week Novovoronezh NPP suffered an accident. The reasons and consequences of the accident have not been reported by the officials as […]
December 8, 1997 Accidents and incidents, Radwaste storage at nuclear fuel cycle plants in Russia Engineer exposed to high radiation at Dimitrovgrad Research Institute On November 28, an engineer at Dimitrovgrad Research Institute for Atomic Reactors was exposed to high levels of radiation. Minatom claimed […]
December 5, 1997 Nikitin Case 23 U.S. Lawmakers Sign Nikitin Petition Lawmakers ask Russian President Yeltsin to demand review of environmentalist’s case.
December 4, 1997 Russian Navy 20 SS-N-20 missiles to be destroyed in December: 80 tons of dangerous chemicals into the environmen On December 3, 12 ballistic SS-N-20 missiles were destroyed at the height of 10 kilometres over the Barents Sea. In addition, 8 missiles are […]
