Putin leaves Kazakhstan without deal to build nuclear plant
A visit last week by Vladimir Putin and a Kremlin entourage to Astana, Kazakhstan sought in part to put Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, on good footing with local officials.
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Publish date: November 25, 2005
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The contracts price tag is 2.5m Norwegian crowns aimed at preliminary works on designing infrastructure net in Andreeva bay. The Norwegian Foreign ministry is financing the project through the Northern county Finnmark. The project, in particular, concerns the electricity, water and sewage nets, because at the moment these nets are out of order or destroyed, Interfax reported.
The Murmansk governor Yuriy Evdokimov is hoping six contracts on Andreeva bay will ne signed in the beginning of next year. He also mentioned that the effectiveness in Andreeva bay mostly depends on the Russian Federal Nuclear Agency, which has not yet approved the general plan of works for this site.
Finnmark Governor Gunnar Kjønnøy said the cooperation will depend on the level of provided information about the polluted zones in Andreeva bay. He said Norway allocated 188m Norwegian crowns for the projects concerning Andreeva bay and Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTGs). Kjønnøy said he would ask the Foreign Ministry not to reduce the financing in 2006, reported Interfax.
A visit last week by Vladimir Putin and a Kremlin entourage to Astana, Kazakhstan sought in part to put Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, on good footing with local officials.
Russia is formally withdrawing from a landmark environmental agreement that channeled billions in international funding to secure the Soviet nuclear legacy, leaving undone some of the most radioactively dangerous projects and burning one more bridge of potential cooperation with the West.
While Moscow pushes ahead with major oil, gas and mining projects in the Arctic—bringing more pollution to the fragile region—the spoils of these undertakings are sold to fuel Russia’s war economy, Bellona’s Ksenia Vakhrusheva told a side event at the COP 29, now underway in Baku, Azerbaijan.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.