
Bellona Nuclear Digest. November-December 2024
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
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Publish date: March 29, 2007
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The Federal budget allocated 2.5 billion rubles in 2003-2005 for the completion of the project. Then in 2005 a supplementary 164 million rubles were allocated in order for the vessel to meet the requirements of Gosatomnadzor. Last year Baltic Plant used its own resources and funds to complete the project.
According to the Russian President’s recent order regarding the creation of a United Ship-Building Corporation (OSBC), Alexander Chistov does not think that the creation of such a company would reduce the number of orders for the Baltic Plant, pointing out that this year they already plan to implement and transfer two projects for the Rosmorport and that in May they plan to sign an agreement with a Norwegian company for the construction of two supply vessels, which could possibly lead to order for an entire series of such vessels, St. Petersburg News Firm reported.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
A military drone with a high-explosive warhead struck the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine overnight, damaging a protective shelter that prevents radiation leaks at the plant’s destroyed fourth reactor unit, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said on Friday.
Russia has officially withdrawn from an international environmental agreement that brought to bear billions of dollars from EU nations and the United States on addressing the nuclear legacy of the Soviet Union.
This article by Angelina Davydova, editor of Bellona’s Ecology & Rights magazine, first appeared in The Moscow Times. The oil spill in ...