November 17, 2016 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Scram at Russia’s new flagship reactor goes unmentioned for six days, stoking speculation MOSCOW –The No 6 reactor at the Novovoronezh nuclear power plant in Russia – the first of the country’s flagship AES-2006 series – […]
November 16, 2016 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Kola NPP director wants to run reactors for a total of 60 years Vasily Omelchuk, director of the Kola Nuclear Power Plant near Murmansk yesterday told an energy conference his plant wants to extended the […]
November 15, 2016 Accidents and incidents, Nuclear issues, Nuclear issues in ex-soviet republics Enormous containment arch finally moving into place over exploded Chernobyl reactor Over the next five days, engineers at Chernobyl, the Ukrainian site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, will be moving an enormous roof […]
November 14, 2016 Nuclear Russia, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Russia prepares to dismantle first nuclear icebreaker ever MURMANSK – Russia is set to begin dismantling the nuclear icebreaker Sibir at the Nerpa Shipyard north of Murmansk in 2017, representing […]
November 9, 2016 Climate change, International climate conferences Trump victory casts pall over US climate leadership The election of a US president who has called global warming “bullsh*t” and a Chinese orchestrated “hoax” raised dark […]
November 8, 2016 Electric mobility, Transport Obama administration leaves behind incentives for electric car owners The Obama administration is leaving behind a little bit of cure for the range anxiety electric car owners in the United States experience […]
November 7, 2016 Climate change Trump victory feared as climate change summit convenes ST. PAUL, Minnesota – As climate experts convene in Marrakech for the yearly UN climate change summit on Monday, one toxic cloud […]
November 2, 2016 Nuclear Russia Russia’s newest breeder reactor goes into commercial operation Reactor No 4 of the Beloyarsk nuclear power plant in the in the Sverdlovsk region of Russia has started commercial operation, state nuclear […]
November 1, 2016 Nuclear Russia Distrust of nuclear energy not helping to solve environmental problems in Russia ST. PETERSBURG – Russian society’s perception of the building and use of nuclear power plants, the cooperation between nonprofits and […]
October 28, 2016 Nuclear Russia Bellona’s Hauge wins Russian environmental prize Bellona’s Frederic Hauge is this years recipient of the Russian Vernadsky Environmental Award for the organization’s continued work to […]
October 27, 2016 Transport US court approved $14.7 Billion Settlement in VW emissions cheating scandal NEW ORLEANS – A federal judge in the United States has approved Volkswagen’s $14.7 billion settlement over the carmaker’s […]
October 26, 2016 Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Andreyeva Bay: Much has been done, but more remains MURMANSK – Removal of spent nuclear fuel from Andreyeva Bay, the notorious submarine maintenance base in Northwest Russia, beginning in […]
October 26, 2016 Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Andreyeva Bay – a history of successful international cooperation MURMANSK – Bellona and Russian nuclear corporation Rosatom Tuesday opened a joint seminar in Murmansk to discuss notorious nuclear […]
October 20, 2016 Industrial Pollution, Shipbreaking Danish shipping giant caught beaching ships in India and Bangladesh Shipping conglomerate Maersk said on Monday it was striving to improve workers’ rights at shipbreaking yards it uses in India after […]
October 18, 2016 Arctic, Fossil fuels Environmentalists file suit against the Norwegian government over Arctic Drilling In a groundbreaking legal action, two Norwegian environmental organizations, Nature and Youth and Greenpeace, have filed suit against the […]
August 25, 2016 The Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine Former Russian eco-watchdog pleads guilty to ignoring Northern Russian pollution for bribes MURMANSK– Ruslan Tischenko, a former official from Murmansk’s division of Russia’s federal environmental watchdog, pleaded guilty in […]
August 23, 2016 Industrial Pollution, The Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine Lone Norwegian mayor accuses Russian oligarch of fouling the Arctic: When will Oslo follow? KIRKENES, Norway – Following a gathering of politicians and citizens in this town earlier this month, calls from its mayor to forbid […]
August 21, 2016 Nuclear Russia Russian nuclear corporation issues unlikely decree for reactor construction near Murmansk A Russian government decree published on the first of the month indicates the country plans to construct 11 new nuclear power reactors by […]
August 11, 2016 The Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine Norwegian politicians and citizens call Norilsk Nickel ‘dirtiest industry in the Arctic’ KIRKENES, Norway – Residents of this Norwegian-Russian border town have long suffered enormous sulfur dioxide emissions from Russian […]
August 9, 2016 Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel When haste makes risky waste: Public involvement in radioactive and nuclear waste management in Sweden and Finland MOSCOW – How did it happen that in Sweden, the country that developed the technology for deep geological disposal of radioactive waste, […]
