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Publish date: May 4, 2009
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This decision is due to be announced by Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso during Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to Japan on May 12, Kyodo said, citing Japanese officials, RIA Novosti said.
Japan earlier allocated 2 billion yen ($20 million) toward dismantling some 70 nuclear submarines. The additional funding is aimed at highlighting the East Asian country’s commitment to the nuclear non-proliferation process and preventing potential environmental damage from abandoned nuclear submarines, Japanese officials were quoted as saying by the agency.
Kyodo said that the project, involving some 20 countries, is expected to be completed in the spring of 2010. The funding is expected to be spent on cranes and the construction of mini-docks in Russia’s Pacific port city of Vladivostok.
Kyodo also said that Japan may contribute funds for the construction of facilities to store spent nuclear fuel, RIA Novosti said.
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.
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our main focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution risks and climate change.