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Publish date: November 23, 2005
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Deputy director of SevRAO radioactive waste department Vladimir Khandobin said the first contract concerns the storage conditions for the reactor core recently unloaded from the Alfa-class submarine. Liquid metal was used to cool the reactors on such submarines, therefore the unloading operation requires special conditions. The last similar unloading operation was carried out in Russia back in 1991, Interfax reported.
SevRAO is expecting the documents from the EBRD on the fourth reactor concerning the physical protection of the onshore base. The second and the third contracts concerning shipment of the spent nuclear fuel and radwaste from the base, are more complicated as the foreign participating companies are obliged to pay Russian taxes according to the current Russian legislation. Khandobin, however, said they hope to find a solution.
Gremikha (Iokanga) naval base is the second onshore storage site at the Kola Peninsula for spent nuclear fuel and radwaste from submarines. The base is the easternmost Northern Fleet base at the Kola Peninsula, located some 350 kilometers east of the mouth of the Murmansk fjord. The European Bank of Reconstruction and Development set Gremikha as priority project in the program of environmental rehabilitation reported Interfax.
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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