May 4, 2021 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russia eyes building five more floating nuclear plants: report Russia’s president Vladimir Putin has reportedly approved a plan to power a far eastern copper mining venture by building as many as five […]
April 28, 2021 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia On Chernobyl’s 35th anniversary, Ukraine opens a new nuclear waste repository at the stricken plant Ukraine’s president has unveiled plans for a new nuclear waste repository at Chernobyl, which 35 years ago this week became the site of […]
April 26, 2021 Climate change, International climate conferences Putin promises to join climate action, but Moscow’s targets are still weak Speaking at a White House-convened international summit last week, President Vladimir Putin promised that his country, the world’s […]
April 22, 2021 Climate change, International climate conferences Biden commits to cutting US greenhouse emissions by half by 2030 President Biden on Thursday committed the United States to slashing its greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 52 percent by 2030, a pledge […]
April 21, 2021 Climate change, International climate conferences Biden, Putin and other world leaders to convene for virtual White House climate summit Russian President Vladimir Putin will join dozens of world leaders at an online climate summit hosted by US President Joe Biden set to begin […]
April 20, 2021 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russian nuclear officials offer new promises to build ‘optimized’ floating nuclear plants The technical design bureau of Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, has begun drawing up blueprints for a scaled-down version of […]
April 16, 2021 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russia to open new plant for processing depleted uranium An electrochemical plant run by Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, has announced the construction of a new uranium hexafluoride […]
April 14, 2021 Nuclear issues, Nuclear issues in ex-soviet republics, Nuclear Russia Estonia mulls building a nuclear plant of its own The government of Estonia, the small Baltic state on Russia’s western border, is investigating the possibility of building nuclear power […]
April 13, 2021 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Meltdown in Japan Fukushima to release wastewater into the ocean, says Japanese government Japan’s government says it will release more than 1 million tons of contaminated water from the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant […]
April 9, 2021 Electric mobility, Transport Ford to mass produce electric vans in Russia, say reports Ford Motors, one of America’s top three automakers, will move to mass produce electric cars in Russia, local media have reported, making […]
April 7, 2021 Electric mobility, Transport Massive Biden infrastructure plan gives huge boost to electric cars President Joe Biden has made electric vehicle development a priority under a $2 trillion infrastructure bill put forth by his […]
March 31, 2021 Arctic, Arctic Transport and Shipping, Climate change Now-resolved Suez Canal blockage shows value of Arctic shipping route, Russia says While hundreds of ship and tankers were blocked from passing through the Suez Canal by a stranded container ship, Russia’s Energy Ministry […]
March 30, 2021 Climate change Biden administration announces major push for offshore wind energy In a major energy policy shift, America’s offshore wind industry is getting a major boost from the Biden administration as the White House […]
March 25, 2021 Industrial Pollution, The Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine Murmansk regional polluter shuts down another of its polluting facilities A major Russian metalworks near the Norwegian border has ceased operations in a move meant to reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide that have […]
March 23, 2021 Electric mobility, Transition The trials and tribulations of two Belarusian EV drivers in Russia’s far north This winter, two Tesla-driving Belarusian businessmen named Artur and Viktor decided to take a trip to Murmansk by electric car. It was a […]
March 21, 2021 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Rosatom seeks contractor to dispose of sunken subs reactor cores Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, has announced a tender for disposing of reactor cores from the K-27 submarine, which was […]
March 18, 2021 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Imported transformers behind November outage at Belarusian nuclear plant Italian-produced equipment was behind a mishap at the Belarus nuclear power plant late last year, which saw a newly operational […]
March 15, 2021 Electric mobility, Transport Electric car sales see huge annual increases in Russia For another year running, Russia has set records for electric car sales that, shockingly, outpace rates in its EV-hungry Scandinavian […]
March 12, 2021 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Meltdown in Japan 10 years after Fukushima, the nuclear industry still has trouble gaining the public’s trust Ten years ago this week, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake in the Pacific sent an eight story wall of water rolling toward the six reactors of the […]
February 22, 2021 Climate change, International climate conferences US is officially back in the Paris Agreement. What’s next? As of Friday, the United States has official rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement, lending new vigor to the global struggle against climate […]
