June 7, 2023 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Rosatom says nuclear cleanup in Arctic done – Far from the case, says Bellona. Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom said last week that more than two decades worth of efforts to rid the Arctic…
June 6, 2023 Access to information, Russian human rights issues Moscow marks Ecology Day by blocking access to Bellona’s websites within Russia The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media, or Roskomnadzor, has blocked all of the Bellona…
June 6, 2023 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Ukraine Dam collapse in Ukraine a major threat to the environment, but spares nuclear plant — for now Ukraine on Tuesday accused Russian forces of blowing up a major dam and hydroelectric power station in a part of…
June 2, 2023 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Ukraine IAEA chief urges Russia and Ukraine to ban attacks on besieged Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant The head of the UN nuclear watchdog Tuesday stressed that the world is lucky that a nuclear accident hasn’t happened…
June 1, 2023 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Ukraine Bellona publishes new report on Ukraine’s besieged Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant For a year and a half, the world has bourn witness to an unprecedented spectacle: the military occupation of a…
May 30, 2023 Arctic Norway takes control of the Arctic Council at an especially troubled time Norway's chairmanship of the Arctic Council will be one of the most difficult in the entire existence of this international…
May 29, 2023 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Bellona Nuclear Digest. April 2023 After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Bellona shut down its activity in the aggressor country. On 18…
May 22, 2023 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Ukraine Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant again briefly loses power Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest atomic energy station, spent several hours operating on emergency diesel generators Monday after…
May 17, 2023 Russian human rights issues, Ukraine A new issue of Environment and Rights appears against uncertain legal backdrop With the latest issue of Environment and Rights, which is available in English here, our editors had to confront a…
May 3, 2023 Carbon Accounting, Carbon Dioxide Removal, Climate change US President Biden urges carbon capture and storage for world’s heaviest polluters US President Joe Biden announced his Carbon Management Challenge, an initiative he presented at a meeting with leaders from the…
April 26, 2023 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Ukraine Chernobyl anniversary offers a bleak look at what may await other Ukrainian nuclear plants A little over a year ago, Russian troops abandoned Chernobyl after briefly occupying it during the grim opening days of…
April 25, 2023 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Ukraine Bellona’s nuclear digest for March, 2023 An overview of developments in the nuclear industry and radiation safety linked to Russia and Ukraine.
April 19, 2023 Air Pollution, Industrial Pollution, The Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine, Ukraine Europe continues to buy products from Russia’s dirtiest companies With the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the European Union has begun to reduce trade relations with Russia…
April 18, 2023 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Ukraine Bellona declared ‘undesirable’ in Russia The Russian prosecutor general’s office today declared Bellona an undesirable organization. The prosecutor says that Bellona has:
March 29, 2023 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Ukraine UN nuclear watchdog visits Ukraine’s embattled nuclear plant in pursuit of a safety accord The head of the UN’s nuclear energy watchdog returned Wednesday to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, reportedly saying he is…
March 27, 2023 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Ukraine IAEA Chief Grossi to visit embattled Zaporizhzhia plant this week UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi will visit the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine next week to assess…
March 9, 2023 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Ukraine IAEA head decries ‘complacency’ as airstrikes cut power to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog has renewed appeals for a demilitarized protection zone around the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear…
February 23, 2023 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Ukraine Belarus hints at building a second nuclear power plant without resolving problems at its first The Unit 2 reactor at the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant — built to showcase Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom’s AES-2006…
February 3, 2023 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Ukraine Ukraine greenlights first steps on new nuclear reactor builds Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers has greenlighted the preliminary phases of building two $5 billion Westinghouse AP 1000 reactors at the…
January 27, 2023 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Ukraine Hungary will thwart EU sanctions against Russia’s state nuclear corporation, reports say Hungary will veto any European Union sanctions against Russia affecting nuclear energy, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told state radio on…
