Balancing competitiveness and climate objectives: Bellona Europa’s insights on the Draghi Report
Introduction Competitiveness has been the dominating topic in EU political discussions in recent months and is set to be a key focus of the upcomi...
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Publish date: October 23, 2008
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The shipment was part of Global Threat Reduction Initiative, a tri-lateral effort between Russia, the United States and the International Atomic Energy Agency to secure materials that could be vulnerable to terrorists seeking to build nuclear or radiological weapons.
Of special concern is that uranium located at research reactors throughout the world, many of which are located on university campuses or other poorly secured research locations.
Thirteen casks holding about 155 kilograms of spent fuel were moved out of the Budapest Research Reactor in late September, beginning a three-week shipment by truck, rail and ship to Russia’s nuclear material storage site at Mayak in the Southern Urals. Previous shipments had been sent to the Dmirovgrad storage and research facility east of Moscow.
“It was a big shipment, the biggest one we’ve ever done,” said Kenneth Baker of the US National Nuclear Security Administration, AP reported . ”It was basically enough to make six nuclear weapons.”
“This shipment of highly enriched uranium from Hungary is the largest shipment of HEU spent fuel under NNSA’s Global Threat Reduction Initiative,” said NNSA Administrator Thomas D’Agostino in a press release today.
“The outstanding cooperation between the United States, Hungary and Slovenia in removing and securing this dangerous nuclear material exemplifies our strong international commitment to global threat reduction and nonproliferation.”
Introduction Competitiveness has been the dominating topic in EU political discussions in recent months and is set to be a key focus of the upcomi...
Russia is a world leader in the construction of nuclear power plants abroad. Despite the sanctions pressure on Russia since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, its nuclear industry has remained virtually untouched.
Today, the Bellona Foundation is launching the establishment of the Center for Marine Restoration in Kabelvåg, Lofoten. At the same time, collaboration agreements related to the center were signed with Norrøna, the University of Tromsø, the Lofoten Council and Blue Harvest Technologies
To ensure that Germany achieves its goal of climate neutrality by 2045, negative emissions are necessary, as depicted in the global IPCC scenarios.