August 29, 1997 Nuclear Russia Minatom confirms on-going program on subcritical nuclear explosions Russia may have performed a nuclear test on August 16, reported The Washington Times on August 28. Both the Russian…
August 29, 1997 Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, Russian Navy Naval tanker rusting in Severodvinsk pending dock repairs The Naval tanker TNT-25 (Vala class) used for collection and transportation of liquid radwaste has been idling at Zvezdochka yard…
August 28, 1997 Russian Navy “Tomsk” arrived at the Kola Peninsula On August 25, brand new Oscar-II class nuclear-powered submarine "Tomsk" arrived at one of the bases on the Kola Peninsula.…
August 27, 1997 Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Pacific nuclear waste project goes one further With backing from Russian Minatom, upstart company US Fuel & Security has filed a request with the US government to…
August 26, 1997 Nuclear Russia Sosnovy Bor plans gain substance Plans to create a combined nuclear power plant and showcase for the new generation of VVER-640 reactors in the city…
August 21, 1997 Accidents and incidents, Radwaste storage at nuclear fuel cycle plants in Russia Radioactive discharges hushed up for a month Accidental discharges of radioactivity at Dimitrovgrad Research Institute near river Volga on July 25-26 was hushed up for a month,…
August 20, 1997 Russian Navy Shkotovo majority says ‘nay’ On August 17 an overwhelming majority of the population in the Shkotovo region in the Far East of Russia voted…
August 15, 1997 Russian Navy Major strike due by mid September The labour union leaders of the 9 military-industrial complex plants in the Far East of Russia, among them Zvezda and…
August 13, 1997 Accidents and incidents, Radwaste storage at nuclear fuel cycle plants in Russia Strontium power-source lost at sea On August 12, an MI-8 helicopter lost a radioactive power-source for an automatic meteorological station located on cape Maria near…
August 13, 1997 Radwaste storage at nuclear fuel cycle plants in Russia No further nuclear barter trade between Russia and Ukraine This year the nuclear barter trade is coming to an end between Russia and Ukraine, reports Russian daily Izvestiya. Upto…
August 11, 1997 Radwaste storage at nuclear fuel cycle plants in Russia Muslyumovo settlement to be evacuated On August 7 the Chelyabinsk county administration signed a decree on re-settlement of village Muslyumovo and adjacent areas downriver of…
July 31, 1997 Nuclear Russia Kola NPP: Safety remains a problem After long term negotiations, customs authorities in Murmansk County on July 1 finally permitted across-the-border delivery of Norwegian equipment for…
July 29, 1997 Nuclear Russia Prolonged life for RBMK reactors --Our strategy is to make RBMK reactors operate for 40 years, not 30, said Yury Garusov, a chief-engineer at Leningrad…
July 27, 1997 Russian Navy Pacific Fleet not to be dissolved There are no plans to dissolve the Pacific Fleet, said commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy, admiral Felix Gromov, on a…
July 24, 1997 Russian Navy The Pacific Fleet may be dissolved In accordance with the new Russian military conception, the Pacific Fleet is to be dissolved, reports Vladivostok daily. This option…
July 24, 1997 Russian Navy On the brink of nuclear disaster The Atlantic Ocean, north of Bermuda, October 1986: Strategic nuclear submarine K-219 (Yankee class) sinks after an explosion in one…
July 24, 1997 Russian Navy Nerpa workers received part of their salary On July 15 Nerpa Yard received some 900,000 USD from Moscow, covering a part of the salary arrears, while the…
July 22, 1997 Radwaste storage at nuclear fuel cycle plants in Russia Novosibirsk nuclear fuel producer upgrades to meet increasing competition This week Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant began testing its new product - nuclear fuel for VVER-440 type reactors, reported Novosibirsk…
July 17, 1997 Russian Navy Zvezda yard employees received salaries for November ’96 The employees of Naval yard Zvezda in the Russian Far East received their salaries for November last year this July,…
July 16, 1997 Russian Navy Russian government promises military salaries by September In the middle of July the Russian government promised to cover all its salary debts to the army by September…
