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: September 29, 2003
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The representatives of the Ukrainian Fuel and Energy Ministry examined the questions concerning the completion of reactor no.4 at the Khmelnitsk NPP and reactor no.4 at the Rivno NPP. Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister Vitaly Gayduk, Ukrainian parliamentarians, leaders of Energoatom company and nuclear plants, local city administration leaders, construction companies took part in the meeting on August 23, 2003. It was stated at the meeting that thanks to the good financing the reactors could be completed in time. Gayduk urged to establish the main office on reactors completion to coordinate the work and finish construction as soon as possible.
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.