December 9, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Andreyeva Bay cleanup reaches landmark in dangerous nuclear fuel removal process Used nuclear fuel assemblies, which had been lying for decades at the bottom of Building 5, an aged and dilapidated fuel store at Russia’s […]
December 6, 2019 Renewable energy, Wind Murmansk region’s wind farm progressing with accolades Earlier this month, the Enel Group, whose subsidiary is building a wind park near Murmansk, was singled out for a particular honor by the […]
December 5, 2019 Climate change, Fossil fuels Russian energy giant looks to shed coal assets, reports say In a grudgingly climate-friendly gesture, IrkutskEnergo, a major Siberian energy company, is moving to shed its coal assets – a sign that […]
November 26, 2019 Arctic, Arctic Transport and Shipping, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Rosatom says shipping is up on the Arctic – despite environmental concerns Shipping through Russia’s remote arctic artery, the Northern Sea Route, has increased by 63 percent over last year’s figures, signaling […]
November 22, 2019 Industrial Pollution, The Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine Major Russia polluter begins shutting down harmful smelting works near Murmansk An industrial facility in Northwestern Russia long responsible for harmful pollution will shut down by the end of next year and its […]
November 19, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Meltdown in Japan, Renewable energy, Solar, Wind Fukushima joins Chernobyl in renewable revival Japan’s northeastern prefecture of Fukushima, devastated during the 2011 earthquake and nuclear power plant disaster, is looking to […]
November 18, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russia ponders a floating nuclear plant for India Rosatom, Russia’s nuclear corporation, has publicly expressed interest in jointly developing a floating nuclear power plant with India, […]
November 15, 2019 Arctic, Renewable energy, Wind SevTek conference pushes a green agenda for Russia’s Arctic If authorities in Moscow are half-hearted in their efforts to bring down Russia’s harmful emissions, the local government in Murmansk sure […]
November 13, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Rosatom issues a public response to Bellona’s concerns over depleted uranium imports Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, has publically responded to criticism from Bellona over the company’s renewed policy of […]
November 7, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Bellona’s position on the import of depleted uranium to Russia At the end of last month, Russian media reported that containers of depleted uranium hexafluoride, owned by the Western European company […]
November 7, 2019 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Two prominent rights groups liquidated by Russia’s ‘foreign agent’ law In a recent clamp down on so-called “foreign agents,” Russian courts have disbanded two prominent decades old rights groups after the […]
November 5, 2019 Climate change, International climate conferences Trump’s formal withdrawal from the Paris Accord puts the climate on next year’s presidential ballot The Trump administration on Monday formally notified the United Nations of its intention to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, a move that […]
November 4, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Dispatch from Zheleznogorsk: How Russia injects radioactive waste into the ground In early September, experts from Rosatom’s Public Council for civil society visited the Severny Landfill – a site created for the deep […]
November 1, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russia resumes importing depleted uranium from Germany, breaching old promises Environmental groups have voiced concern that Russia is again accepting shipments of uranium tails, a byproduct formed when uranium is […]
October 14, 2019 Renewable energy, Wind Russia’s largest wind park opens near Murmansk The chill winds lashing the Arctic coasts near Murmansk will soon provide a new sort of warming effect – a wind energy farm that will be […]
October 3, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia First fuel assemblies leave the Lepse, Russia’s most hazardous nuclear ship The first containers of nuclear fuel have been removed from the Lepse service ship, Russia’s waterborne atomic graveyard, marking a major […]
September 24, 2019 Climate change, International climate conferences Russian government finally gives tepid backing to Paris Climate Accord Russia said Monday it will implement the Paris Climate Agreement to fight climate change after Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev approved a […]
September 12, 2019 Electric mobility, Transport Russian regions push for electric car revolutions When we think of places that are working to blaze trails for emissions free electric cars, Russia hardly jumps to mind. But over the summer, […]
September 11, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Meltdown in Japan Japan may have to dump radioactive water from Fukushima into the sea Japan’s environmental minister has said the country may have to dump more than a million tons of radioactively contaminated water from the […]
September 10, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russia’s floating nuclear plant arrives at its remote destination Russia’s floating nuclear power plant, the Akademik Lomonosov, has arrived at its remote Arctic destination after sailing 4,700 kilometers […]
