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 […]
August 26, 2015 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russia announces second floating nuclear plant as new problems plague its first Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom has announced it will launch another floating nuclear power plant produced in 40 percent less […]
August 26, 2015 Nuclear Agreements, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Nuclear USA Disposing of plutonium cheaper and safer than making it fuel, says leaked US report A faltered US disarmament agreement with Russia has left Washington considering far cheaper and effective means of dispensing with 34 tons […]
August 24, 2015 Climate change, Electric mobility Norwegian MPs push for all cars to be electric in 10 years Norway’s Liberal Party has suggested that the country make a full switch to electric cars by the year 2025, ridding its roads entirely of […]
August 20, 2015 Nuclear Agreements, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russian official to plead guilty in US court over graft in cooperative nuclear weapons destruction program Vadim Mikerin, a former executive with the Russian state nuclear fuel conglomerate Tenex has agreed to plead guilty in the US to money […]
August 19, 2015 Nuclear Russia, Russian Navy Russia launches nuclear battle sub retrofitted for underwater research Russia has released a rejuvenated nuclear submarine down the slipways at the Zvezdochka Shipyard after it underwent “in-depth” repairs […]
August 19, 2015 Carbon Capture and Storage Nordic CCS Summer School held in Norway From 9 to 14 August 2015 the second NORDICCS’ CCS Summer School was held in Porsgrunn and Trondheim, Norway. NORDICCS is the Nordic CCS […]
August 18, 2015 Climate change, Gas, Oil UPDATE: Obama targets oil and gas industry methane leakage President Barack Obama has announced his second blockbuster climate initiative within a month, issuing for the first time ever a federal […]
August 18, 2015 Climate change, Gas, Oil Obama, EPA to announce new rules for methane in oil and gas industry The Obama Administration will today propose first of a kind regulations to reduce emissions from the oil and gas industry of methane, a […]
August 17, 2015 Arctic, Climate change, Fossil fuels Obama to visit Alaska against background of climate change – and fears of oil drilling fans President Barack Obama would travel to Alaska at the end of this month to visit the front lines of US climate change, which he called “one […]
August 17, 2015 Shipbreaking Norwegian Shipowners to stop beaching In an op-ed in Dagens Næringsliv, the largest daily business paper in Norway, Norwegian Shipowners Association and their CEO Sturla […]
August 14, 2015 Arctic, Arctic Transport and Shipping, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet World’s largest nuclear icebreaker nearing completion in St. Petersburg St. Petersburg’s Baltic Shipyard has complete the bow section of the much anticipated Arktika nuclear icebreaker, which has been trumpeted […]
August 12, 2015 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Russian Navy Russia’s Kursk sub disaster anniversary highlights 15 years of polished deception The sinking of the Kursk nuclear submarine 15 years ago today etched a monolithic capstone to Russian nuclear naval ineptitude that had been […]
August 11, 2015 Nuclear Meltdown in Japan Japan restarts first reactor since Fukushima disaster amid protest and concerns over new regulator Amid vociferous public opposition, Japan on Tuesday restarted the first of more than 40 atomic reactors that were taken out of service in […]
August 10, 2015 Arctic, Renewable energy Villages in Russia’s Arctic make coveted progress with renewables energy MURMANSK – A coupe of tiny settlements above Russia’s harsh Arctic Circle are offering a glimpse of the kind of economic savings and […]
August 6, 2015 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change, International climate conferences Should the new Obama Clean Power Plan boost expectations for Paris? NEW ORLEANS – President Obama’s new rules to help slash emissions from existing US power plants has propelled Washington into an […]
August 5, 2015 Arctic, Gas, Oil Russia submits claim on the North Pole to UN – but oil aspirations seem dead in the water Russia on Tuesday submitted claims to the United Nation for control of staggering swathes of Arctic seabed, stretching as far north as the […]
August 4, 2015 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change, International climate conferences Obama climate plan pivots toward Paris, and paves smooth terrain for CCS in America NEW ORLEANS – US President Barack Obama yesterday unveiled his revised Clean Power Plan to cut US power station emission by nearly a third […]
August 3, 2015 Accidents and incidents, Nuclear issues, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, Russian Navy Russian impounds samples from sunken Soviet-era sub en route to Norway Russian customs has for the last 10 months held in impound samples from a sunken nuclear submarine that Russian scientists sent to their […]
July 31, 2015 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games Early release for Olympic eco-prisoner Vitishko rejected again A hearing highly anticipated to lead to Sochi Olympic environmental prisoner Yevgeny Vitishko’s early release ended in disappointment […]
