November 20, 2017 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Mystery persists over where Rosatom will fuel its floating nuclear plant Four months ago, responding a pressure campaign from environmentalist and foreign governments, Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom […]
November 16, 2017 Arctic, Nuclear Russia, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Report says Rosatom will take over Arctic development – vastly increasing role of icebreakers Russia’s president Vladimir Putin wants to turn infrastructure development for the Northern Sea Route – Russia’s fabled east-west […]
November 15, 2017 Electric mobility, Transport Bellona and Murmansk look to build an e-car charging bridge between east and west Bellona and the city government of Murmansk are trying to pave the way for a future where Russia’s northernmost capital and Norway are […]
November 10, 2017 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia French institute says radioactive cloud came from Russia or Kazakhstan A cloud of radioactivity detected over Europe during a period of several weeks could have resulted from an accident at a nuclear facility in […]
November 8, 2017 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Rosatom preps to unload fuel rods from Lepse service vessel Officials in Russia have set a beginning date for removing hundreds of spent nuclear fuel assemblies from the bowels of the Lepse nuclear […]
November 6, 2017 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Putin boasts about dwindling number of ‘foreign agent’ NGOs in Russia Russian President Vladimir Putin last week noted that non-profits blacklisted on the government’s foreign agent list are turning down […]
October 26, 2017 Arctic, Nuclear Russia, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Russia’s mirage nuclear icebreaker a definite maybe Russian officials have again revived a cherished sea shanty about a goliath nuclear icebreaker the country may or may not decide to build as […]
October 25, 2017 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Andreyeva Bay gears up to send away more old nuclear fuel The second bundle of 22,000 spent nuclear fuel rods are set to leave the submarine maintenance base of Andreyeva Bay as part of an ongoing […]
October 24, 2017 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, Russian Navy Russia’s sunken subs to lie where they are for another three years Russian officials have again raised the possibility of retrieving tons of nuclear trash from the bottom of the Arctic Ocean – only to […]
October 19, 2017 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Banned Norwegian Editor to get his day in Russian court The case of a Norwegian newspaper editor, who was suspended from travelling to Russia by the shadowy Federal Security Service, is finally […]
October 18, 2017 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Russian officials admit that sanctions are throwing nuclear icebreaker plans behind While Russian authorities assert that their newest and most powerful icebreaker, the Arktika, will be ready to take to the seas in 2019, […]
October 16, 2017 Industrial Pollution, The Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine Norilsk Nickel, polluting giant, declares new age of eco-transparency Norilsk Nickel, the Russian Arctic’s industrial giant, tried to break from its environmentally hostile history by inviting Bellona to an […]
October 12, 2017 Climate change, International climate conferences Is there anything behind Putin’s bogus clean energy statistics? Last week, President Vladimir Putin, who has now been in office nearly as long as Brezhnev and exhibits many of the same droning tendencies, […]
October 11, 2017 Climate change, International climate conferences What Trump’s latest threat to the climate will mean in court As California is reduced to ash by raging wildfires fueled by drought, and the Gulf of Mexico catalogues the destruction wrought by its […]
October 9, 2017 Industrial Pollution, The Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine Russia and Norway make progress on cross-border environmental problems Russian and Norwegian environmentalists and politicians gathering in the industrial town of Nikel to tote up advances in cross-border […]
October 6, 2017 Electric mobility, Transport Bellona’s Murmansk e-car charger scoops up Russian government award What started as a small gesture to help a few electric car owners North of Russia’s Arctic Circle juice up their rides has blossomed into […]
October 5, 2017 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Russia to answer for its ‘foreign agent’ law in European Court of Human Rights Russia’s Justice Ministry is finally ready to offer a defense of its “foreign agent” law which says the 2012 legislation has actually […]
October 4, 2017 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Rosatom announces new fueling dates for its floating nuclear plant Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom now says it will fuel its first floating nuclear power plant by October 2018 after it has been […]
October 2, 2017 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel The worst nuclear disaster you’ve never heard of celebrates its 60th birthday In the history of nuclear disasters, it’s easy to forget that a radioactive explosion back in 1957 near an obscure village with an […]
September 28, 2017 Arctic, Nuclear Russia, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet What can Russia learn from its flashy new nuclear icebreaker push? Russia last week held a launching ceremony for a powerful nuclear icebreaker, called the Sibir, as part of its drive to cobble together a […]
