August 30, 2013 Nuclear Meltdown in Japan Russia, Japan in a tiff over car import contamination concerns ST. PETERSGBURG –As more troubling news comes from the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, where authorities have […]
August 29, 2013 Nuclear Meltdown in Japan Japanese nuke regulators say Fukushima Daiichi operator botching cleanup job A meeting of Japan’s new nuclear regulator Wednesday revealed that Tokyo Electric Power Co, or Tepco, owner of the wrecked Fukushima […]
August 28, 2013 Fossil fuels Illegal coal plants set sour tone for UN climate negotiations in Warsaw MEPs and environmental groups across Europe are urging the European Commission to take action against the planned construction of two new […]
August 28, 2013 Climate change UN climate leaks may be ‘misleading,’ but new IPCC assertions seem bound to shock UN scientists in a month will release the first volume of their heavily anticipated fifth assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on […]
August 28, 2013 Carbon Capture and Storage Bellona launches Ocean Forest The Bellona Foundation announced on 14 August the establishment of Ocean Forest, a partnership between the Bellona Foundation and the Lerøy […]
August 23, 2013 Climate change Norwegian scientific group refutes claims that Norway is polluting Russia The Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU) yesterday slammed claims by a Russian-government connected NGO that Norway and other western […]
August 21, 2013 Nuclear Meltdown in Japan Japan seeks higher crisis scale ratings for highly contaminated water leaks; more thyroid cancer cases come to light Japan’s nuclear regulator has suggested wants raising the severity level of a radioactive water leak discovered Monday at the […]
August 20, 2013 Carbon Capture and Storage First crop of wastewater algae for biofuel An EU-backed project in Spain has produced its first crop of algae to be used to manufacture biofuel. The project is so far the only one to […]
August 20, 2013 Nuclear Russia FEATURE: Who needs a nuclear power plant in Bashkortostan? MOSCOW — The former and current Presidents of Bashkortostan (Bashkiria) – a Russian republic located between the Volga and the Ural […]
August 19, 2013 Climate change Shadowy Russian NGO levels pollution allegations at Norway Green Patrol, a Russian ecological organization with shady government ties, and whose findings are routinely denounced as political […]
August 15, 2013 Nuclear USA US appeals court rules nuclear regulators must conclude their review of the near-dead Yucca Mountain project The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is “flouting the law” by not conducting a licensing review of the proposed Yucca […]
August 12, 2013 Russian Navy Cold War nuclear legacy dismantlement in Sayda Bay – Mission: Possible MURMANSK – Sayda Bay, a naval area on the Kola Peninsula in Russia’s Far North – a former fishing village serving as a long-term […]
August 9, 2013 Radwaste storage at nuclear fuel cycle plants in Russia Report from recent expedition to radioactive ‘hot spot’ shows data still scant on area’s contamination ST. PETERSBURG – A comprehensive report summing up the results of a recent radiation and environmental survey in the territory surrounding […]
August 8, 2013 Nuclear Meltdown in Japan Tepco admits to far larger irradiated water leaks at Fukushima than earlier indicated Japanese officials yesterday escalated their alarm, saying that radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant was not only […]
August 7, 2013 Nuclear Meltdown in Japan Radioactive water at Fukushima poised to overflow into the ocean Highly radioactive water seeping into the ocean from Japan’s tsunami-struck Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is creating an […]
August 6, 2013 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia ANALYSIS: Chronically delayed Nizhny Novgorod nuke plant project still lacks principal go-ahead – but planning drags on MOSCOW – Just like the hapless Baltic project in Kaliningrad Region – construction that was started and then postponed, at best, absent […]
August 1, 2013 Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, Russian Navy Murmansk waves farewell to yet another radiation hazard MURMANSK – Murmansk has said goodbye to the nuclear maintenance vessel Volodarsky – a second floating radiation hazard to be […]
July 24, 2013 Climate change, Russian Navy Murmansk prosecutors: Kola Mining violates environmental law, after all A document obtained by Bellona and authored by Murmansk Regional Prosecutor’s Office reveals prosecutors actually made a finding of […]
July 24, 2013 Nuclear Russia Chernobyl veteran on Balakovo reactor-boosting experiment: There is nothing costlier than stupidity In late June, a public hearing was gathered in Balakovo, home to Balakovo Nuclear Power Plant, to discuss running the station’s oldest […]
July 11, 2013 Gas, Oil Russia to defend its interests in the Arctic MURMANSK – A governmental group formed under Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich convened in Murmansk to discuss questions of […]
