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Publish date: April 18, 2007
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Russia’s Foreign Ministry confirmed that Teheran has neither informed the Russian Consulate in Iran nor the construction management at the Bushehr site about the military training next to the nuclear power plant (NPP), reported the Russian news agency “AHH News.” The plant is slates to go online later this year.
Rosatom said that military training next to the NPP construction works would create serious tensions.
“Military training and the use of weapons at five o’clock in the morning right next to the Bushehr NPP without informing the Russian experts working at the construction site creates unnecessary tensions,” said Rosatom spokesman Sergey Novikov. “We are very sorry about this situation and we hope that this will not happen again,” he added.
Throughout the past year, our mission at the Bellona Environmental Transparency Center has focused on two key, but intertwined issues—nuclear and radiation safety as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drags on, and the worldwide influence of Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, which itself is actively involved in the war and has participated in the occupation of a Ukrainian nuclear power plant.
At the beginning of the year, reports in the German and Russian press suggested an approximate 70% increase in uranium imports from Russia to Germany in 2024. But does this reflect broader European trends? It does not. Overall, imports of uranium and nuclear fuel from Russia to Western countries actually dropped sharply in 2024. Unlike the situation in Germany, this is already an established trend.
A Lingen, Germany plant could begin producing nuclear fuel in cooperation with a subsidiary of Rosatom, Russia's state nuclear corporation, which is directly involved in the war in Ukraine and occupying the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
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