February 15, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Western scientists say a radiation leak happened at Mayak – Russia disagrees New facts have emerged to suggest a leak of ruthenium charted this autumn over Europe did, in fact, arise from a filtration error at the […]
February 14, 2018 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Russia’s most enthusiastic environmental group shuts down over ‘foreign agent’ accusation Russia’s foreign agent law has ground another environmental group out of existence as Akrhangelsk’s youth group Aetas – which led a […]
February 12, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Investor pullout leaves Rosatom at sea with its nuclear project in Turkey In a major blow to one of Russia’s most ambitious international nuclear deals, three investors backed out of the Akkuyu Nuclear Power […]
February 8, 2018 Arctic, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Russia historic nuclear icebreaker dismantlement is going safely – just take their word for it Russia has begun the dismantlement of the Sibir nuclear icebreaker – a Soviet era superstructure that broke Arctic ice for 15 years – […]
February 7, 2018 Accidents and incidents, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Chernobyl starts tackling its liquid radioactive waste In a major step toward cleaning up the world’s worst nuclear disaster, workers at Chernobyl have begun moving much of the stricken […]
February 6, 2018 Arctic Russia’s Arctic regions chase government funding to raise Soviet era shipwrecks Despite the international funding that has poured into the Murmansk area to remove nuclear hazards, other kinds of accumulated environmental […]
February 5, 2018 Accidents and incidents, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Experts say ‘large uncertainties’ still loom around possible radioactive leak at Russia’s Mayak An international commission of nuclear experts has said it cannot determine if the Mayak Chemical Combine was the source of a radioactive […]
February 1, 2018 Arctic, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet With new nuclear icebreaker, Moscow hopes to plant a flag in Crimea Rumors continue to swirl around Russia’s newest nuclear icebreaker extravaganza, the Leader, an unlikely space age vessel of massive […]
January 31, 2018 Arctic, Russian human rights issues Norway says radiation levels around sunken Russian sub safe for now A new report published by the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority has said that radiation levels near a Russian nuclear submarine that […]
January 30, 2018 Arctic, Nuclear issues, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Arctic Frontiers forum totes up Russia’s northern nuclear hazards When Norway assesses potential nuclear risks in Northern Russia, it counts among them not just decades of intentionally scuttled radioactive […]
January 29, 2018 Arctic, Fossil fuels, Gas, Oil Norway’s new oil leases offer a peek at Oslo’s environmental hypocrisy Norway’s coalition government handed down a four year reprieve on oil drilling in the Lofoten Islands, but hedged that with defeat by […]
January 24, 2018 Nuclear issues Bellona publishes groundbreaking report on the state of Ukraine’s nuclear industry It won’t come as a surprise that safety would be a critical challenge still facing the nuclear industry in Ukraine, which inherited the […]
January 23, 2018 Arctic, Climate change, International climate conferences Arctic Forum seeks evasive balance between economic development and environmental preservation The Arctic is a huge, sparsely populated region with a complex climatic conditions and containing large energy and bio-resources. It’s […]
January 22, 2018 Accidents and incidents, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia French reporters fined for trying to track Mayak’s ruthenium leak to its source A group of French journalists in Russia were fined for trying to track down the source of a radioactive cloud that European regulators have […]
January 18, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Official vote of confidence for Russia’s floating nuclear plant fails to reassure Russia’s first floating nuclear power plant, the Akademik Lomonosov, has received its approval for operation from the country’s State […]
January 17, 2018 Electric mobility, Transport Electric car owners in Vladivostok unite to mount Russia’s newest protest movement An environmentally minded protest for the rights of electric car owners is coming from an unlikely place: Vladivostok, Russia. The […]
January 16, 2018 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Russian lawmakers take a giant step toward blacklisting individuals as ‘foreign agents’ Russia’s parliament, the Duma, has passed in the first reading amendments that would allow the government to name individuals as […]
January 15, 2018 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games Attack on Russian environmentalist linked to lavish mansion for Putin’s prime minister In an explosive allegation, Russian investigative journalists have reported that a prominent environmental activist may have been beaten […]
January 10, 2018 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law, Sochi Olympic Games Russian group that highlighted Olympic environmental graft cleared from ‘foreign agent’ list A Russian environmental non-profit that made its name revealing luxury vacation homes and corrupt construction deals connected to Kremlin […]
January 9, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Ukraine announces its dependence on Russian made nuclear fuel is waning Igor Nasalyk, Ukraine’s Minister of Energy and Coal took the step of saying his country can survive without nuclear fuel imports from […]
