News
Publish date: March 5, 2004
News
The Romanian science minister Luchian Biro announced this in January, ITAR-TASS reported. He said that Romania agreed with the IAEA to buy in France only depleted uranium, and refuses to buy enriched uranium, which could be used for nuclear bomb. The contracts life time is 2 years and the price-tag is about $4m. Romania will pay only 500,000 euro, the rest will be paid by the USA and the IAEA. The first delivery should take place by plane this spring. The nuclear reactor built in 1979 is used for research purposes and for generating nuclear fuel for the only Romanian nuclear power plant in Chernavode. The nuclear plant was built with the help of Canada.
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.