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Publish date: August 23, 2006
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The Science Center, which is a branch unit of the Russian academy of Science, stresses that the area of Vidyaevo is better suited for the planned LNG plant than the alternative Teriberka. The Kola Science Center was to present it evaluation, made in cooperation with the Murmansk Marine Biological Institute, this week, BarentsObserver reported. The report will be handed to the Gazprom-subsidiary of Giprospetsgaz.
Research secretary of the Kola Science Center, Anatolii Vinogradov, stresses that the Shtokman project is unique in its complexity. Never before has a field located on such depths and with such ice conditions been developed.According to Vinogradov, the site of Vidyaevo is better suited for the planned LNG terminal than the site in Teriberka, first of all because of fewer risks of earthquakes. He notes that a number of regional research institutes are involved in the preparations for the Shtokman development.
Several public hearings and meetings are planned to be organized in connection with the Shtokman development. Public hearings on the project will be held in Apatity in September, 19.
Throughout the past year, our mission at the Bellona Environmental Transparency Center has focused on two key, but intertwined issues—nuclear and radiation safety as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drags on, and the worldwide influence of Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, which itself is actively involved in the war and has participated in the occupation of a Ukrainian nuclear power plant.
At the beginning of the year, reports in the German and Russian press suggested an approximate 70% increase in uranium imports from Russia to Germany in 2024. But does this reflect broader European trends? It does not. Overall, imports of uranium and nuclear fuel from Russia to Western countries actually dropped sharply in 2024. Unlike the situation in Germany, this is already an established trend.
A Lingen, Germany plant could begin producing nuclear fuel in cooperation with a subsidiary of Rosatom, Russia's state nuclear corporation, which is directly involved in the war in Ukraine and occupying the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
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