September 10, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia The second reactor at Russia’s Leningrad II nuclear plan reaches controlled minimum power Reactor No 2 at the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant II has achieved criticality and was brough to the minimum controlled power level late last […]
September 9, 2020 Climate change Fires in Russian Arctic release record quantities of carbon dioxide, studies say Unprecedented fires battering the Arctic have released more carbon dioxide this year than forest blazes over the entirety of 2019, new […]
September 7, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Baltic states form energy pact against Belarusian nuclear plant The Baltic states have issued a joint boycott of energy produced by the Belarusian nuclear power plant and will require proof that […]
September 4, 2020 Air Pollution, Climate change Will it be hard or easy to reverse Trump’s anti-environmental legacy if he loses in November? Both Donald Trump’s administration has undertaken a series of aggressive rollbacks to US environmental protection policy that has broad […]
August 31, 2020 Climate change Climate change made Hurricane Laura intensify quickly, studies say As experts from the National Hurricane Center surveyed the Gulf of Mexico early last week, they saw in Laura the makings of a Category 1 […]
August 24, 2020 Fossil fuels, Oil Major Norwegian oil production vessel hit by construction errors, Bellona warns Troubling construction errors have beset an Equinor-operated vessel bound for Norwegian oil fields, making it vulnerable to fatigue and […]
August 21, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Delays in delivering Russia’s giant nuclear icebreaker line sparks lawsuits Delays plaguing the launch of the Arktika nuclear icebreaker, billed to be Russia’s largest to date, have prompted a number of lawsuits […]
August 19, 2020 Electric mobility, Transport What will it take to get electric cars on Russian roads, digital conference asks High sticker prices, bad roads and a lack of a charging infrastructure are conspiring against electric cars in Russia in gaining wide-spread […]
August 17, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Belarus begins fueling its Russian-built nuclear power plant Belarus has begun loading uranium fuel into the first of two reactors at its controversial Russian-built nuclear power plant, which has […]
August 14, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russian officials set eight-year time table for lifting sunken nuclear subs Officials from Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, have reiterated plans to raise two sunken nuclear submarines from the Arctic […]
August 12, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Dismantlement of Russia’s most radioactive ship reaches milestone The Lepse nuclear service ship, long one of the most dangerous Soviet era radiation hazards in Northwest Russia, has finally been emptied of […]
August 11, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Damaged spent nuclear fuel to depart Andreyeva Bay next year, say officials A milestone process to remove damaged spent nuclear fuel at a former Arctic submarine base will commence next year, officials have said, as […]
August 6, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia The adventures of depleted uranium hexafluoride in Russia The renewed import of nuclear materials from Europe to Russia has raised important questions for environmentalists: Is the substance […]
July 15, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Rosatom, Norway and Bellona discuss nuclear cleanup work in Northwest Russia Nuclear officials from Russia and Norway have met online to discuss raising sunken nuclear submarines from Arctic waters, the bulk of which […]
July 2, 2020 Fisheries, Renewable energy Bellona allies with ABB and Bremnes Seashore in world’s first fully electric fish farm Aquaculture in Norway is a billion-dollar business. Chances are that if you’ve eaten salmon anytime in the last six months, that’s where […]
June 29, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russia denies it’s behind minor European radiation spike Russia over the weekend denied that its nuclear power plants were the source of a minor radiation spike detected by Scandinavian regulators […]
June 25, 2020 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Environmental activists are under severe pressure, new report concludes Russia’s law on ‘foreign agents’ has put an undue burden on the country’s environmentalists, hampering the addressing myriad […]
June 23, 2020 Arctic, Climate change Siberian village records Arctic’s hottest temperature ever One of the coldest places on earth last weekend became one of the hottest when a small town in northern Siberia registered a temperature of […]
June 22, 2020 Arctic, Fossil fuels, Oil Oil spill in Russian Artic had many causes, environmentalists say Environmentalists say that accidents like an oil spill above Russia’s Arctic Circle could be avoided by eliminating systemic problems that […]
June 11, 2020 Arctic, Renewable energy, Wind Coronavirus hasn’t slowed construction progress at Russia’s Arctic wind farm The cornavirus pandemic may have slowed renewable energy projects worldwide – but the first industrial scale wind park above the Arctic […]
