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Publish date: May 5, 1997
Written by: Igor Kudrik
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Russia has an estimated 8,000 to 9,000 nuclear warheads, to be reduced to no more than 3,500 under the START II treaty between the United States and Russia. Russia’s hard-line parliament has refused to ratify the treaty despite President Boris Yeltsin’s urgings.
Mikhailov told Interfax that nearly 400 tons of highly enriched uranium has been removed from nuclear warheads. Already 18 tons of uranium have been sold to the United States.
Under an agreement between the two countries, Russia is to sell to the United States 500 tons of highly-enriched uranium from dismantled nuclear warheads – 40 percent of its stocks. The uranium is blended down from some 90% of enrichment to 4,4% – the level of enrichment suitable as fuel for nuclear power plants.
Mikhailov said his ministry plans to boost Russia’s 2 billion USD (1996) nuclear exports by 20%, through uranium export and construction of nuclear power stations in Iran, China and India.
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.
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