
Russia Targets Bellona Vilnius Staffer with ‘Prosecution by Red Tape’
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Publish date: February 17, 1997
Written by: Igor Kudrik
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Summer 1995:
Summer 1996:
The territory of the Nuclear Plant is guarded by special troops. According to a special commission headed by the deputy police chief of St. Petersburg and Leningrad County Police Department, there were 21 criminal cases initiated against employees of Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant in 1995. They were accused of stealing, racketeering and possession of drugs and ammunition.
208 Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant employees were punished for different violations of the Civilian Code in the first half of 1996. During the same period 91 employees were detained by the police due to alcohol abuse.
Currently Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant runs on four ageing RBMK-1000 reactors. Current plans assume the construction of four new reactors of MKER-800 type and one of VVER-640 type.
References:
Green World, Nuclear News from the north-west Russia, No.16, February 8 1997.
Ministry of Atomic Energy of Russia, North-Western Scientific and Industrial Centre of Nuclear Power, Sosnovy Bor, 1996.
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