July 7, 2018 Climate change, International climate conferences Good Riddance: Trump’s EPA administrator Scott Pruitt resigns in scandal On Thursday, America said good riddance to Scott Pruitt, whose oily reign as head of the Environmental Protection Agency is finally over. […]
June 29, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Russian environmentalists demand transparency from the country’s nuclear waste industry Environmentally significant information about radioactive waste should never be secret and concealing information about the disposition of […]
June 28, 2018 Electric mobility, Transport Bellona’s electric car rally sparks through the Arctic on high-voltage Bold explorers have always heard people call them crazy, and Iya Gordeyeva, an electric car driver from St. Petersburg, Russia and head of […]
June 27, 2018 Nuclear issues, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel In victory for the environment, Norway will shut down Halden Reactor In a major victory for radiation safety in Europe, the Norwegian government announced Wednesday that it would be permanently shutting down […]
June 19, 2018 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Russia’s Justice Ministry Defends ‘foreign agent’ law by saying everybody has one In a case that’s been dragging on for more than two years, Moscow’s Justice Ministry has said its law against so-called “foreign […]
June 18, 2018 Arctic, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Andreyeva Bay nuclear fuel removal going faster than planned, Rosatom says The pace of cleanup at a major Cold War dump for spent nuclear submarine fuel in Northwest Russia is going faster than planned, officials […]
June 14, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Jordan turns down a Rosatom plant, but dangles possible small reactor collaboration with Russia In a blow to the international business interests of Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom, Jordan has scrapped a plan to build a $10 […]
June 13, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Kiev bolsters energy independence of from Moscow with US nuclear fuel Ukraine has committed to loading US manufactured Westinghouse nuclear fuel into the reactors of the Zaporozhia nuclear power station, a long […]
June 12, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Bulgaria moves to revive suspended Russian-built nuclear plant The parliament last week approved by 172 to 14 Prime Minister Boyko Borisov’s proposal to develop a plan to resume construction of the […]
June 11, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Raging wildfires around Chernobyl finally extinguished A forest fire that had raged for three days last week in the restricted zone around Chernobyl, scene of the world’s worst nuclear […]
June 4, 2018 Arctic, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Russia’s big-wigs weigh Arctic development plans As Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom draws closer to gaining nearly exclusive control over the Arctic’s storied Northern Sea […]
May 31, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia In a drill, fake terrorists take over Arctic radioactive waste storage site Russian officials have said they thwarted a terrorist attack at a facility storing old radioactive components from nuclear vessels located […]
May 30, 2018 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Russian Supreme Court upholds travel ban on Norwegian newspaper editor A Norwegian newspaper editor has lost a Kafkaesque case before Russia’s Supreme Court where he sought to challenge a travel ban imposed on […]
May 29, 2018 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law St Petersburg Economic Forum panelists trash Russian environmental movement Discussions at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum included a wide-ranging bash of environmentalism in Russia, with Sergei […]
May 24, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear issues in ex-soviet republics, Nuclear Russia Chernobyl’s stray dogs are bound for new homes in the US If every dog has its day, then for the dogs living in the shadow of Chernobyl’s exploded No. 4 reactor, that day has finally come.
May 23, 2018 Arctic, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Rosatom legislation to control the Arctic faces more pushback In a legal blow, Russia’s accounts chamber, parliament’s independent financial oversight body, has challenged legislation that would […]
May 22, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Meltdown in Japan Japan’s government weighs dumping radioactive Fukushima water into the Pacific As the cleanup of a triple meltdown following an earthquake and tsunami at the Fukushima nuclear power plant drags into its seventh year, […]
May 21, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russia’s floating nuclear plant arrives in Murmansk The Akademik Lomonsov, Russia’s floating nuclear power plant – dubbed the “nuclear Titanic” by some environmentalists – arrived in […]
May 16, 2018 Arctic, Arctic Transport and Shipping, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Putin decrees an increase in Arctic traffic President Vladimir Putin has issued a demand that the amount of traffic flowing through the Arctic Northern Sea Route reach a towering 80 […]
May 15, 2018 Electric mobility, Transport One in Five Americans Say Their Next Car Will be Electric Demand for electric vehicles is rising in the US with one in five Americans saying their next vehicle will be an electric car, according to […]
