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Publish date: January 15, 1998
Written by: Igor Kudrik
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The metal canister containing high radioactive material was found a few kilometres away from the former Russian military base in Khankala. The four policemen who took the canister away from children playing with it, were hospitalised after receiving a dose of radioactivity 150 time higher than the "normal" rate. According to official returns, the canister might have contained radioactive parts of X-ray facility, dumped by the road after the war.
The leadership of the republic has no technical means to recover the contaminated area around the found radioactive source, stated Musa Shakhabov, deputy prime- minister of Chechen republic. According to the deputy, some 50 sets of special clothes and more than 30 containers are required to decontaminate the area. As reported by RIA News, the area of 5 kilometres around the source is contaminated.
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.