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Bellona nuclear digest. May 2024
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
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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.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
But it’s unlikely to impact emissions from shipping along the Northern Sea Route.
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution and climate change.
The following op-ed, written by Bellona’s Charles Digges, originally appeared in The Moscow Times. In recent months, the Russian nuclear in...