June 13, 1997 Nuclear Agreements Western companies to manage spent fuel in Russia Four western companies have joined efforts to propose cost-effective solutions for spent nuclear fuel management in the north-western part of…
June 13, 1997 Nuclear Agreements Western companies to manage spent fuel in Russia Four western companies have joined efforts to propose cost-effective solutions for spent nuclear fuel management in the north-western part of…
June 13, 1997 Nuclear Agreements Western companies to manage spent fuel in Russia Four western companies have joined efforts to propose cost-effective solutions for spent nuclear fuel management in the north-western part of…
June 11, 1997 Nuclear Agreements, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Finnish Andreeva Guba project suspended The initiative of Finnish company IVO Power Engineering Ltd. to process radioactive liquid wastes at the Northern Fleet base at…
June 11, 1997 Nuclear Agreements Follow-up of the AMEC declaration The Russian-American-Norwegian co-operation on military related environmental issues - AMEC - is beginning to bear fruits. Today one of the…
June 10, 1997 Accidents and incidents Nuclear Sub Sank in the Pacific On May 30 a laid-up nuclear-powered submarine sank at the Russian Pacific Fleet base in Avachinskaya bay on the Kamchatka…
June 2, 1997 Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Current Status, June 1997: Handling of spent nuclear power plant fuel The major contribution to radioactivity in nuclear waste accumulated in the world comes from the spent nuclear fuel. Some 9,000…
May 26, 1997 Russian Navy Long delayed train arrives at Severodvinsk On May 21 the special train for shipment of spent nuclear fuel finally arrived at Severodvinsk. The train was scheduled…
May 21, 1997 Accidents and incidents, Radwaste storage at nuclear fuel cycle plants in Russia Nuclear incident at Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant On May 15, Novosibirsk Fuel Pellets Fabrication Plant (Zavod Khimkonsentratov joint-stock company) located in eastern Siberia, suffered an incident. A…
May 20, 1997 Accidents and incidents, Radwaste storage at nuclear fuel cycle plants in Russia Repair brigade received high exposure doses A repair brigade at the LNPP performing works at the operating fourth reactor (RBMK- 1000 type), received high exposure doses,…
May 20, 1997 Radwaste storage at nuclear fuel cycle plants in Russia Mayak reprocessing licence suspended Operations at Mayak spent fuel reprocessing plant was suspended by the Russian State Nuclear Inspection on March 21 this year,…
May 20, 1997 Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Radioactive waste funds insufficient Minatom allocations to radioactive waste handling are insufficient, admitted Russian Atomic Energy Minister Mikhailov in St. Petersburg on May 14.
May 14, 1997 Russian Navy Plasma torch cuts submarines at Nerpa A plasma torch for cutting the tempered steel hull plates of submarines was put to work at Nerpa Naval yard…
May 9, 1997 Nuclear Agreements Russian Defence Minister to discuss nuclear weapons security in the US On May 12-15 Russian Defence Minister Igor Rodionov will visit the US to meet his US counterpart, Defence Minister William…
May 9, 1997 Russian NGO law Increased criminal responsibility for nuclear violations In order to strengthen the Federal Law on Utilisation of Nuclear Energy, the Russian government has approved several new bills…
May 6, 1997 Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Nuclear waste may be stored in the Pacific A three year old proposal for building nuclear storage facilities in the Pacific Ocean is gaining substance through Russian Minatom…
May 5, 1997 Nuclear Agreements Nuclear Weapons dismantling Russia has dismantled almost 50 percent of its nuclear arsenal in compliance with international agreements, said Nuclear Energy Minister Viktor…
May 5, 1997 Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel “,Ordinary people are too ignorant”, ---Ordinary people are too ignorant to make decisions on the development of nuclear energy, claimed deputies of the Krasnoyarsk county…
May 3, 1997 Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Nuclear wastes piling up at Kola Since the beginning of 1995 there has only been eleven transportations of used nuclear fuel from the Kola Peninsula and…
April 28, 1997 Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel RT-2 Referendum Rejected The Krasnoyarsk County Council rejected the initiative to hold a referendum on banning the construction of spent nuclear fuel reprocessing…
