
The fragile environmental coalitions cleaning up the Black Sea oil spill
This article by Angelina Davydova, editor of Bellona’s Ecology & Rights magazine, first appeared in The Moscow Times. The oil spill in ...
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Publish date: September 20, 2005
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The experts inspected how radioactive substances were kept at the Sukhumi Institute of Physical Engineering and the Research Institute of Experimental Pathology and Therapy. After a two-day inspection, the experts had talks with Abkhazian President Sergei Bagapsh, who told the IAEA experts to come more often, ITAR-TASS reported.
The experts got access to all the sites they wanted and discovered that all the materials remained intact and had not disappeared as some sources claimed. It will take a few months to get the complete report on the inspection trip.
IAEA experts have visited the republic twice before, in 1999 and 2002, in order to check how radioactive substances are kept. All radioactive substances are stored properly, as the IAEA commission could see in 2002, and the terms of storage have not changed since then, the director of the Sukhumi Institute of Physical Engineering, Anatoly Markoly, said before the experts visit. The level of radiation at the institute and in Abkhazia does not exceed the norm, he said to ITAR-TASS.
Reuters reported earlier in June that the IAEA wanted to find any weapons-grade plutonium or highly enriched uranium that may have gone missing from a nuclear institute in Abkhazia. There are concerns that some 9 kg of plutonium may be missing, according to this report. But the authorities in the unrecognized republic denied this information.
This article by Angelina Davydova, editor of Bellona’s Ecology & Rights magazine, first appeared in The Moscow Times. The oil spill in ...
The following speech was given by Bellona nuclear expert Dmitry Gorchakov at the Arctic Frontiers conference, which was in session this week in Troms...
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