September 23, 2015 Carbon Capture and Storage Launched today: Executable Plan for CCS in Europe The European Technology Platform for CO2 Capture and Storage (CCS), the Zero Emissions Platform (ZEP) of which Bellona is a leading member, […]
September 22, 2015 Nuclear Russia, Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Russian NGO leader flees to France amid possible treason charges Nadezhda Kutepova, the prominent head of a Russian NGO that protects the rights of victims of radiological disasters, has fled the country […]
September 21, 2015 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Where will Angarsk remelt its radioactive waste? IRKUTSK, Russia─Participants of a public hearing this summer on the project of building a reprocessing facility to remelt radioactive […]
September 21, 2015 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change, International climate conferences EU adopts its negotiation mandate for the Paris climate summit On 18 September 2015 the Environmental Council adopted the EU negotiation mandate that will lay the ground for the EU’s position in the […]
September 17, 2015 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Shabbily stored tons of radioactive waste threaten Siberian mining town Russia is storing more than 16 tons of radioactive waste in Siberia’s Zabaikalsky Region in the Far East, causing a local town to go on […]
September 17, 2015 Carbon Capture and Storage New EU energy plan echoes Bellona’s recommendations on CCS On 15 September 2015 the European Commission adopted its new Strategic Energy Technology (SET) Plan. The SET Plan has been a cornerstone of […]
September 16, 2015 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Another nature conservancy group falls afoul of Russia’s ‘foreign agent’ law The Russian group Sakhalin Environmental Watch earlier this week became Russia’s 14th ecological non-profit to get slapped with the […]
September 14, 2015 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Closed nuclear city in Siberia ramping up industrial plutonium-based fuel production Russia’s Zheleznogorsk Mining and Chemical Combine is ramping up production of mixed uranium and plutonium oxide fuel, or MOX, in a push […]
September 11, 2015 Accidents and incidents, Nuclear Agreements, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Russian Navy Russia agrees to beef up notices to Norway about nuclear incidents Amid escalating tensions between East as West, Norway and Russia will next week sign a long desired agreement to jointly notify one another […]
September 11, 2015 Bio-CCS, Carbon Capture and Storage, International climate conferences Study shows enormous bioenergy potential in Australia, while country’s climate ambition remains non-existent A recently published study entitled “Hybrid life-cycle assessment of algal biofuel production” assesses the economic viability of algae […]
September 10, 2015 Carbon Capture and Storage Bellona delivers recommendations to the Commission’s ETS reform and the Innovation Fund On 9 September 2015 Bellona Europa delivered its feedback to the European Commission’s proposal for revision of the EU Emission Trading […]
September 10, 2015 Climate change, Electric mobility, International climate conferences Bellona hosts Eco Car Day in the EV-capital On 8 September 2015 Bellona and Oslo Taxi hosted a joint event: Eco Car Day. Car manufactures presented their various eco-car models to over […]
September 9, 2015 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Russian Navy Russia’s flagship nuclear battle cruiser – the world’s largest – puts in for repairs The Russian Northern Fleet’s flagship nuclear battle cruiser, the Pyotr Veliky has put into dry dock near Murmansk for planned repairs, […]
September 8, 2015 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Poor economy forces Russian nuke utility to mull extending old reactors’ run times to 60 years Russia’s nuclear utility is holding a tender whose winner would develop tests for some of the country’s oldest reactors to analyze their […]
September 3, 2015 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia South Africa is waiting for Rosatom’s money JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—While the Russian economy is seemingly in a state of freefall, seeing its rouble plunge even deeper down the […]
September 2, 2015 Arctic, Climate change, Fossil fuels Will the full rage of Arctic climate change make Obama’s Alaska trip less ‘hypocritical’? As President Barack Obama alighted in Alaska on Monday for his touted tour of the effects that climate change has already wreaked on […]
September 2, 2015 Carbon Capture and Storage, International climate conferences Yet another US-China deal on CCUS collaboration, while we keep waiting for a project to materialise On 26 August 2015 during the US-China Clean Coal Industry Forum which took place in Billings, Montana, the world’s two largest […]
September 1, 2015 Nuclear Agreements, Nuclear Russia, Nuclear USA Russian nuclear official pleads guilty to defrauding US-Russia nonproliferation agreement Russian nuclear official Vadim Mikerin pleaded guilty in a US Federal court Monday to charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering and […]
September 1, 2015 Arctic, Climate change, International climate conferences Obama will urge aggressive climate action on three-day trip to Alaska As President Barack Obama today heads to Alaska to press his reinvigorated climate message, he does so against a background of hopefulness […]
August 27, 2015 Nuclear Russia Russian nuke station offers discount prices as demand sags – with a few ecological pitfalls Russia’s Kola Nuclear Power Plant has been forced to offer power it produces to prospective buyers at a 10 percent discount electricity […]
