March 12, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Meltdown in Japan Eight years after Fukushima, Japan struggles to trust nuclear power Eight years after an earthquake at sea sent a towering wall of water hurtling toward Japan’s Fukushima prefecture and the six reactors of […]
March 7, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russia strives to dust off nuclear plant it started building years ago in Bulgaria Bulgaria is moving to revive the Belene nuclear power plant seven years after the Russia project was cancelled due to funding shortfalls and […]
March 6, 2019 Arctic, Renewable energy, Wind Russia’s largest bank to back wind energy project near Murmansk By Anna Kireeva In a major advance for renewable energy in Russia, Sberbank, Moscow’s largest bank, has opened a $341 million dollar line […]
March 4, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Lithuania renews opposition to Russian-built nuclear plant in Belarus Lithuanian officials have renewed their longstanding opposition to a nuclear power plant Russia is building in neighboring Belarus, this […]
March 1, 2019 Access to information, Nikitin Case, Russian human rights issues From embattled beginnings, Bellona Murmansk marks its 25-year anniversary Twenty-five years ago, a small, youthful group of environmentalists in Murmansk was drawing the scrutiny of the Russian security services. […]
February 27, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russian official confirms plans to build behemoth nuclear icebreaker Russian officials have said they will back the overhaul of an ailing Far Eastern shipyard in order to build an enormous nuclear icebreaker […]
February 26, 2019 Climate change Trump’s is losing in his assault on the environment Since the Trump administration came to power two years ago, it has led a hostile assault on environmental regulation, seeking to knock down […]
February 20, 2019 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Moscow bans the Barents Observer from Russian Internet In a chilling broadside against the independent press, Moscow has blocked further publication of the Barents Observer, a Norwegian news […]
February 18, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Nuclear reactor near St Petersburg Russia back online after weekend hiccup The No 1 reactor at the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant II that was taken offline due to an unknown system failure before the weekend was […]
February 14, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Rosatom reportedly reaching new deal to complete Turkish nuclear plant Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, is close to reaching an agreement for a new partner in a nuclear power plant it is building […]
February 13, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Norway’s radiation officials detect slight uptick of radioactive iodine in the air Norwegian authorities have reported trace amounts of radioactive iodine 131 in the atmosphere, which emerged last week in measurements taken […]
February 12, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russia set to decommission the world’s most remote nuclear power plant Russia’s government has approved plans to begin decommissioning what are perhaps the most secluded commercial nuclear reactors in the […]
February 11, 2019 Industrial Pollution, The Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine Russian industrial giant promises to stop polluting Norway Officials at a Russian nickel smelting works that released dangerous air pollution into Northern Norway last month have said they are taking […]
February 1, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Hungary seeks to postpone loan payback to Russia for Nuclear power plant: What will the final cost be? Budapest is seeking to modify the terms of a loan it must repay to Russia for building two new VVER-1200 type reactors that will eventually […]
January 30, 2019 Arctic, Arctic Transport and Shipping Russian port data show huge increases in Arctic shipping While some in Vladimir Putin’s government may worry that they won’t be able to meet his goal of shipping 80 million tons of traffic via […]
January 28, 2019 Industrial Pollution Russian industry causes dangerous pollution spike in neighboring Norway Residents of Northern Norway were warned to stay indoors on Friday after authorities detected a smog of dangerous pollutants emanating from […]
January 23, 2019 Arctic, Arctic Transport and Shipping, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Bellona’s Arctic Frontiers event offers safe fuels for Arctic shipping expansion The Arctic’s icecap is shrinking 12 percent faster than it was a decade ago, and nearly all of its older and thicker ice is already gone. […]
January 23, 2019 Electric mobility, Transport Will green license plates spark an electric car revolution in Russia? It’s worth a shot As Russia works to catch up with a worldwide shift toward electric cars, one influential Moscow think tank says it has hit on just the thing […]
January 21, 2019 Arctic, Arctic Transport and Shipping, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Russian Ministers try nervously to fulfill Putin’s Arctic shipping goals Ever since Russian President Vladimir Putin decreed last year that shipping traffic through the Arctic’s Northern Sea Route must increase […]
January 17, 2019 Arctic, Arctic Transport and Shipping, Climate change, International climate conferences Moscow’s response to climate change: Bring it on As the Russia ponders a future of warming temperatures throughout the Arctic and much of Siberia, the Kremlin has adopted an approach that […]
