October 10, 2011 Carbon Capture and Storage CCS in Germany – Game Over? For more than two years, international observers have been struggling to grasp the complicated political game(s) in Germany surrounding the […]
October 7, 2011 Ukategorisert Joint European Commission and ECEEE seminar on energy efficiency obligations On the 30th of September a joint European Commission and ECEEE (European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy) seminar on energy […]
October 7, 2011 Carbon Capture and Storage PGE officially opens new 858 MW Power Generation Unit On the 28th of September PGE (Polska Grupa Energetyczna) officially opened Poland’s first power generation unit foreseen to be […]
October 7, 2011 Carbon Capture and Storage Producing hydrocarbon fuels from air and electricity? Air Fuel Synthesis (AFS) is claiming to be able to produce hydrocarbon fuels from air and electricity and is preparing a demonstration […]
October 7, 2011 Carbon Capture and Storage China to invest in low-carbon economy In China low-carbon development will be promoted in the country’s current five-year plan, which began this year. In this time span China […]
October 6, 2011 Nuclear issues India has second thoughts about launching Russia-built reactor – or building new ones in the future MOSCOW – Vigorous public protests and a deepening post-Fukushima crisis of confidence in nuclear technologies have turned the Indian […]
October 4, 2011 Accidents and incidents Russia to lease fateful submarine to India A Russian nuclear submarine in which 20 people died during a 2008 sea trial will be leased to India in mid-November, a source in the Russian […]
October 3, 2011 Nuclear Meltdown in Japan Japanese government and utilities caught rigging public opinion toward nuclear power An independent investigative panel in Japan has revealed that nuclear operators and oversight bodies have stacked public hearings on nuclear […]
September 30, 2011 Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Andreyeva Bay: A tour of a decades-old radioactive dump on its way to recovery MURMANSK – Last week, a delegation from the public Council for Safe Use of Nuclear Energy in Murmansk Region took a tour of an erstwhile […]
September 29, 2011 Nuclear Meltdown in Japan Fukushima reactors nearing cold shutdown but radiation releases continue, and clean up efforts overwhelm All three damaged reactors at Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are below the boiling point, bringing them a step […]
September 29, 2011 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Meltdown in Japan Switzerland to shut down nuclear power by 2034 after vote in parliament’s upper chamber In a three to one vote, the Swiss parliament’s upper house on Wednesday approved plans to phase out the country’s Five nuclear […]
September 27, 2011 Nuclear issues in ex-soviet republics, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel International investigation targets Russian weapons-grade uranium smuggling An international group of investigators has said it suspects a criminal syndicate has been trying to sell Russian origin highly enriched […]
September 27, 2011 Access to information Corruption: A new Russian Fukushima in the making? Corruption in the Russian State Nuclear Corporation Rosatom may cause new nuclear accidents in Russia, experts say. The ecological group […]
September 26, 2011 Carbon Capture and Storage Broad coalition calls for funding for SET-Plan On September 19th, Bellona Europa together with about 40 other NGOs, companies and other stakeholders issued a letter emphasizing the […]
September 26, 2011 Carbon Capture and Storage Alstom & Datang to develop two carbon dioxide capture projects in China China Datang Corporation and Alstom announced on the 21st of September that they will jointly develop carbon dioxide capture and storage […]
September 23, 2011 Carbon Capture and Storage EU initiatives to demonstrate full scale CCS A lot has happened on the EU CCS scene over the last year. The deadline for transposing the EU directive for geological storage of CO2 was […]
September 23, 2011 Ukategorisert Second International Workshop on Biomass & Carbon Capture and Storage Bellona Europa is co-organizing the Second International Workshop on Biomass & Carbon Capture and Storage (Bio-CCS), which will take […]
September 22, 2011 Russian Navy Allegedly drunk crew of fishing trawler collides with Russian nuclear submarine in the Pacific A strategic nuclear submarine of the Russian Pacific Fleet was struck earlier today and slightly damaged by a fishing ship that was manned, […]
September 21, 2011 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia OPINION: Germany’s Siemens delivers staggering blow to Russia’s nuclear interests – will Rosatom recover? Europe’s largest engineering company, Germany’s Siemens, has announced it is leaving the nuclear energy sector. And though Siemens will […]
September 21, 2011 Carbon Capture and Storage Using algae to capture carbon dioxide in plastic membranes (‘BAGS’) An Australian company (MBD Energy) is developing a technology based on Biological Algal Growth System.
