Balancing competitiveness and climate objectives: Bellona Europa’s insights on the Draghi Report
Introduction Competitiveness has been the dominating topic in EU political discussions in recent months and is set to be a key focus of the upcomi...
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Publish date: March 11, 1997
Written by: Igor Kudrik
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On June 6th an officer was killed while defuelling operation conducted by radiological service boat PM-12. The steel wire holding lifted container for fuel broke off and the container weighing seven tons pressed down the officer who was standing below. The officer died on the way to the hospital in Polyarny. There is no avalible information about any crack in the container or damage on the spent nuclear fuel.
This was not the first incident onboard PM-12. In 1993 eight persons were exposed to high doses of radiation – four officers and four sailors. PM-12 is located at the Nerpa ship repair yard for nuclear-powered submarines.
In the end of June a Murmansk newspaper reported that there was a nuclear refuelling operation underway at Snezhnogorsk in Olenjya Bay. The officials from the Technical Department of the Northern Fleet did not allow representatives of Murmansk environmental committee to inspect the operation.
Introduction Competitiveness has been the dominating topic in EU political discussions in recent months and is set to be a key focus of the upcomi...
Russia is a world leader in the construction of nuclear power plants abroad. Despite the sanctions pressure on Russia since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, its nuclear industry has remained virtually untouched.
Today, the Bellona Foundation is launching the establishment of the Center for Marine Restoration in Kabelvåg, Lofoten. At the same time, collaboration agreements related to the center were signed with Norrøna, the University of Tromsø, the Lofoten Council and Blue Harvest Technologies
To ensure that Germany achieves its goal of climate neutrality by 2045, negative emissions are necessary, as depicted in the global IPCC scenarios.