April 2, 2014 Nuclear issues Paper: Construction cost overruns of Olkiluoto reactor rival skyscrapers, Pyramids and Taj Mahal – Areva objects Woes continue to mount around the construction of Finland’s Olkiluoto 3, the new generation European Pressurized Reactor (EPR), as new […]
April 2, 2014 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Meltdown in Japan First trickle of Fukushima evacuees allowed back home amid persistently high radiation levels For the first time since Japan’s nuclear disaster three years ago, authorities are lifting restrictions for residents to return home […]
April 1, 2014 Climate change, International climate conferences New climate change report sounds major impact alarm – will anyone listen this time? The world is not ready for the impacts of climate change, which will include more extreme weather and the possibility that parts of the […]
March 31, 2014 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Meltdown in Japan First worker death at Fukushima highlights mushrooming reports of shady subcontractor activities Japan’s destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant claimed it’s first recorded worker death on Friday when a subcontractor was […]
March 28, 2014 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Kremlin goes on record as reversing nuclear fuel embargo against Ukraine The Kremlin finally backed up statements made last week by Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom that Ukraine will continue to receive […]
March 21, 2014 Renewable energy, Solar, Wind Bellona electric car trek symbolizes what can go right with Murmansk environment MURMANSK – The first known trip via an electric car from Norway to Russia wrapped up today as its driver, Bellona President Frederic […]
March 20, 2014 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia In major step forward, decrepit Lepse nuclear service ship hits dry dock in May MURMANSK – Two years after the derelict nuclear service ship Lepse was hauled out of Murmansk harbor – only to endure further traffic […]
March 19, 2014 Arctic, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Renewable energy, Russian Navy, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Riding the lightning from Norway to Russia – Bellona Murmansk marks its 20th anniversary MURMANSK – Small places can sometimes beget big dreams. This month, as Bellona Murmansk celebrates its 20th anniversary, the office may […]
March 17, 2014 Nuclear issues, Russian Navy Monday fire at Nerpa naval shipyard reveals pattern of neglect in delicate nuclear decommissioning practices A fire of trash and debris broke out this morning on or near the Krasnodar decommissioned nuclear submarine at the Nerpa shipyard, but was […]
March 14, 2014 Nuclear issues, Nuclear issues in ex-soviet republics Rosatom vows continue nuclear fuel flow to Ukraine in spite of Putin-imposed embargo Sergei Kiriyenko, head of Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom, said yesterday that he has no plans on following through with an […]
March 13, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games Russian prison officials lie about Olympic activist’s location – again The shell game prison officials are playing with Yevgeny Vitishko, the vocal environmental opponent of the Sochi Olympics, continued […]
March 12, 2014 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Meltdown in Japan Tokyo averting its eyes from what remains undone at Fukushima As Japan yesterday marked its now traditional minute of silence for the victims of the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake, and Prime Minister […]
March 10, 2014 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Meltdown in Japan Three years after Fukushima, Japanese anti-nuke sentiment strong, but fading on the street Three years down the road from triple reactor meltdown at a nuclear power plant in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture in a disaster that has […]
March 7, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games Olympic prisoner of conscience’s location finally confirmed Yevgeny Vitishko, the imprisoned activist whose scathing criticism of the environmental turmoil visited on the Sochi Region by Russia’s […]
March 6, 2014 Nikitin Case, Russian human rights issues Crusading Russian rights activists and Bellona associate Boris Pustyntsev dies at 78 Boris Pustynstev, one of Russia’s most seasoned and respected human rights pioneers, whose tireless efforts to force Russia – and before […]
March 5, 2014 Nuclear Agreements Obama budget cuts funding for US-Russian plutonium disposal plan to applause of environmental scientists After nearly two decades, billions of dollars and minimal progress, the Obama administration yesterday put on “cold standby” the US side […]
March 3, 2014 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russian-built Finnish nuclear project barely clearing legal hurdles and churning up SNF storage issues Finland’s prospective Hanhikivi Nuclear Power Plant has inched past an ownership hurdle after slightly more than 40 Finnish stakeholders […]
February 28, 2014 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Paks Nuclear Power Plant Deal: In spite of protests, Hungary will move forward and accept Russian financing VILNIUS–The Hungarian parliament has approved a deal with Russia for the expansion of Paks nuclear power plant; according to the […]
February 28, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games Jail officials confirm Vitishko en route to prison colony in Tambov Region but won’t say to which Prison officials in Krasnodar have finally told the lawyer of Yevgeny Vitishko, an environmentalist who criticized the impact of the Sochi […]
February 26, 2014 Russian human rights issues, Sochi Olympic Games Jailed ecologist again missing in authorities’ hands while post-Olympic crackdown on activists rolls on The whereabouts of Yevgeny Vitishko, the ecologist and geologist whose outspoken opinions against the environmental destruction caused by […]
