January 8, 2015 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Russian Navy Belgium experimental reactor fundamentally unsafe based on Russian experience, says Bellona’s Nikitin Belgium’s generation five experimental Myrrha accelerator-driven research reactor has hit significant cost overruns due to post-Fukushima […]
January 6, 2015 Nuclear issues, Nuclear issues in ex-soviet republics, Nuclear Russia, Nuclear USA, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel As Russia and US scramble for Ukrainian nuke fuel market, someone needs to hit the breaks and talk safety A tart battle between Moscow and Kiev over who will supply nuclear fuel to Ukraine’s Soviet-built nuclear power plants is raging behind […]
December 23, 2014 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel SevRAO Russian nuclear waste handler satisfied with its year-end results MURMANSK – SevRAO, Northwest Russia’s state nuclear waste handling division, reported in its year end results that remediation efforts […]
December 17, 2014 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Any type of nuclear reactor, regardless of its purpose, is subject to risks Even though Norway has no reactors producing electricity, its work with research reactors presents the same risks and complications as to a […]
December 17, 2014 Arctic, Fossil fuels, Gas, Oil Obama blocks Alaska’s Bristol Bay from oil and gas drilling for good President Obama announced in a video recorded Tuesday afternoon that he would protect Alaska’ Bristol Bay and nearby waters – a region […]
December 16, 2014 Nuclear Agreements, Nuclear issues, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel NRPA: Western sanctions will not affect Russia’s international nuclear safety projects The recent souring of Moscow’s relations with the West and the financial and economic sanctions imposed against Russia are not expected to […]
December 16, 2014 Access to information, Russian human rights issues Bellona’s Ecology & Rights magazine wins Ecopositive-2014 award Ecology & Rights, the magazine published by the St. Petersburg Environmental Rights Center (ERC) Bellona, has become a winner of the […]
December 12, 2014 Climate change, International climate conferences American feels global warming to its UN Climate Summit present after striking deal with China America’s traditional role in the annual UN climate summits is usually that of the scapegoat: the guys who get booed , who win the NGO […]
December 10, 2014 Climate change, International climate conferences US Secretary of State heads to Lima to bolster American climate commitments to doubters Secretary of State John Kerry will arrive Thursday in the Peruvian capital of Lima to attend a United Nations conference on climate change […]
December 9, 2014 Oil US Supreme Court rejects BP’s appeal to amend its own oil spill settlement, oil giant continues to shovel spin NEW ORLEANS – Oil giant BP suffered a major legal setback in trying to cap how much it will pay under a 2012 settlement to thousands of […]
December 8, 2014 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Finnish parliament approves Russian nuclear plant backing, tying it to Moscow’s technology Finland Friday approved the construction of a controversial Russian-backed nuclear power plant in Pyhäjoki in a plan that strengthens […]
December 5, 2014 Carbon Capture and Storage, International climate conferences Climate Summit Blog: The $100 billion circus is back, with distrust, definitions, dinosaurs and – dare we say – a new dynamism LIMA, Peru – The UNFCCC COP20, or the 20th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change for those […]
December 3, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law, Sochi Olympic Games Russian eco group that detailed Sochi Olympic destruction and corruption faces disbandment The Environmental Watch on the North Caucasus, the mouse whose roar focused international attention on rampant corruption and ecological […]
November 19, 2014 Climate change, Oil Squeaker vote in US Senate kills controversial Keystone pipeline – for now NEW ORLEANS – The US Senate has narrowly failed to pass a bill approving the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline, falling short by one […]
November 17, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games The slow, imperceptible shifts of life behind bars: Bellona visits Yevgeny Vitishko in Russian prison colony SADOVAYA PRISON COLONY, Sadovaya, Russia – The potbellied guards, tinted sepia by the dark cabbage mud and grey, pissing fog crack […]
November 13, 2014 Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, Radwaste storage at nuclear fuel cycle plants in Russia Russian environmentalists demand further discussion of deep nuclear waste burial KRASNOYARSK, Russia – Confusion about when or if public hearings would taking place erupted Thursday during a conference that included […]
November 11, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games Promises to bring water to Olympic striken village remain a pipe dream AKHSHTYR, near Sochi, Russia – This settlement of some 160 people about 20 kilometers north of central Sochi heard hundreds of promises […]
November 9, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games Gazprom poised to continue Olympic environmental ravages begun in Sochi KRANSNAYA POLYANA, near Sochi, Russia – Of all the continuing environmental metastases spawned by Sochi’s hosting of the 2014 Winter […]
October 28, 2014 Nuclear Russia Russia announces yet newer delivery date for first floating nuclear power plant The shipyard responsible for developing Russia’s ongoing fantasy of mass producing floating nuclear power plants said last week the first […]
October 21, 2014 Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, Radwaste storage at nuclear fuel cycle plants in Russia As Russia starts studies for geologic nuclear waste repository, locals demand absolute transparency NO RAO, the Russian state’s national operator for dealing with radioactive waste, has announced it will build an underground research […]
