Monthly Highlights from the Russian Arctic, October 2024
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.
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Publish date: January 16, 2006
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. He also said that the one and only nuclear power plant in Bushehr is being constructed under the IAEA full control and is supplied with the nuclear fuel. According to Lavrov, Russia will deliver the nuclear fuel and receive back the spent nuclear fuel. This scheme suits all the minister said.
Lavrov added that Russia is ready to deliver the fuel to the future Iranian plants. It will take years to build new nuclear plants. The real fuel for them will be needed not tomorrow or next year, but closer to the end of current decade said the minister.
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.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
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.