October 1, 2015 Access to information, Nuclear Russia, Russian human rights issues Russian ecologists adjust their anti-nuclear stance ST. PETERSBURG – Transparency of nuclear and radiological safety projects, contemporary and full access to information, participation of […]
September 30, 2015 Industrial Pollution, International climate conferences, The Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine Standing up to harmful industries: conference participants find economic crisis is environmentalists’ strange bedfellow Recent experience trying to stop environmentally harmful activities offers little comfort, Russia’s ecological activists noted as they […]
September 29, 2015 Climate change, International climate conferences Putin’s zinger climate claims at the UN pulled from outdated script Russian President Vladimir Putin, while delivering a truculent address to the UN General assembly yesterday –accusing the US of missteps […]
September 28, 2015 Industrial Pollution Air quality control is key to cities’ ecological health, St. Petersburg conference participants agree ST. PETERSBURG – Russian cities need stationary air quality monitoring stations, and their real-time readings must be made available to […]
September 25, 2015 Access to information, Future energy system, Industrial Pollution Green urban development panel kicks off Bellona’s conference in St. Petersburg Bellona’s St. Petersburg-based Environmental Rights Center Bellona has gathered Russia’s environmental activists for its 5th annual […]
September 25, 2015 Climate change, International climate conferences, Nuclear issues Nuclear power sags in safety, relevance, misleads as climate help, experts, campaigners and politicians say ST. PETERSBURG – Nuclear power plants are vulnerable to today’s multiplying threats that include terrorism, electromagnetic pulse, and […]
September 24, 2015 Nuclear Agreements, Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, Russian Navy Norwegian officials hamper swift cleanup of old Russian nuke sub base New delays have arisen in a joint project between Moscow and Oslo to rid the Kola Peninsula of 23,000 spent nuclear fuel assemblies from […]
September 22, 2015 Nuclear Russia, Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Russian NGO leader flees to France amid possible treason charges Nadezhda Kutepova, the prominent head of a Russian NGO that protects the rights of victims of radiological disasters, has fled the country […]
September 21, 2015 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Where will Angarsk remelt its radioactive waste? IRKUTSK, Russia─Participants of a public hearing this summer on the project of building a reprocessing facility to remelt radioactive […]
September 17, 2015 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Shabbily stored tons of radioactive waste threaten Siberian mining town Russia is storing more than 16 tons of radioactive waste in Siberia’s Zabaikalsky Region in the Far East, causing a local town to go on […]
September 16, 2015 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Another nature conservancy group falls afoul of Russia’s ‘foreign agent’ law The Russian group Sakhalin Environmental Watch earlier this week became Russia’s 14th ecological non-profit to get slapped with the […]
September 14, 2015 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Closed nuclear city in Siberia ramping up industrial plutonium-based fuel production Russia’s Zheleznogorsk Mining and Chemical Combine is ramping up production of mixed uranium and plutonium oxide fuel, or MOX, in a push […]
September 11, 2015 Accidents and incidents, Nuclear Agreements, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Russian Navy Russia agrees to beef up notices to Norway about nuclear incidents Amid escalating tensions between East as West, Norway and Russia will next week sign a long desired agreement to jointly notify one another […]
September 9, 2015 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Russian Navy Russia’s flagship nuclear battle cruiser – the world’s largest – puts in for repairs The Russian Northern Fleet’s flagship nuclear battle cruiser, the Pyotr Veliky has put into dry dock near Murmansk for planned repairs, […]
September 8, 2015 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Poor economy forces Russian nuke utility to mull extending old reactors’ run times to 60 years Russia’s nuclear utility is holding a tender whose winner would develop tests for some of the country’s oldest reactors to analyze their […]
September 3, 2015 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia South Africa is waiting for Rosatom’s money JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—While the Russian economy is seemingly in a state of freefall, seeing its rouble plunge even deeper down the […]
September 2, 2015 Arctic, Climate change, Fossil fuels Will the full rage of Arctic climate change make Obama’s Alaska trip less ‘hypocritical’? As President Barack Obama alighted in Alaska on Monday for his touted tour of the effects that climate change has already wreaked on […]
September 1, 2015 Nuclear Agreements, Nuclear Russia, Nuclear USA Russian nuclear official pleads guilty to defrauding US-Russia nonproliferation agreement Russian nuclear official Vadim Mikerin pleaded guilty in a US Federal court Monday to charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering and […]
September 1, 2015 Arctic, Climate change, International climate conferences Obama will urge aggressive climate action on three-day trip to Alaska As President Barack Obama today heads to Alaska to press his reinvigorated climate message, he does so against a background of hopefulness […]
August 27, 2015 Nuclear Russia Russian nuke station offers discount prices as demand sags – with a few ecological pitfalls Russia’s Kola Nuclear Power Plant has been forced to offer power it produces to prospective buyers at a 10 percent discount electricity […]
