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Publish date: May 23, 2003
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According to chief engineer Rostislav Rimdenok, it is planned to transfer the block to the dock where it will be stored till the end of May. In the beginning of June the block will be transported to Sayda bay in the western part of the Kola Peninsula, temporary storage location for reactor compartments of the decommissioned nuclear submarines. The two blocks, which has been situated at the Nerpa shipyard since January, and the block from shipyard 10 SRZ will be transported together with the Kursk block to Sayda bay.
Recent attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant "mark the beginning of a new and gravely dangerous front of the war," the UN atomic agency's director general said last week.
After years of inaction, Germany is working on its Carbon Management Strategy to resolve how CCS can play a role in climate action in industry. At the end of February, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action published first key points and a proposal to amend the law Kohlenstoffdioxid Speicherungsgesetz (KSpG). Bellona Deutschland, who was actively involved in the previous stakeholder dialogue submitted a statement in the association hearing.
In the midst of a global discussion on whether natural gas should be used as a transitional fuel and whether emissions from its extraction, production, transport and use are significantly less than those from other fossil fuels, Russia has developed ambitious plans to increase its own production of liquified natural gas (LNG) in the Arctic – a region with 75% of proven gas reserves in Russia – to raise its share in the international gas trade.
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our main focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution risks and climate change.