Balancing competitiveness and climate objectives: Bellona Europa’s insights on the Draghi Report
Introduction Competitiveness has been the dominating topic in EU political discussions in recent months and is set to be a key focus of the upcomi...
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Publish date: September 11, 1997
Written by: Igor Kudrik
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At the end of last week an automatic emergency shut-down of the second reactor occurred at Kursk nuclear power plant (KNPP). The reason to the incident was made public after an expert group finished its preliminary on-site investigation on September 8. The group claimed that a short circuit in one of the turbines led to the development of smoke. As a consequence, the automatic emergency systems initiated the second reactor’s shut-down procedure. The reactor will not be put back in operation until all the details are cleared up.
Kursk NPP operates on four RBMK-type reactors. This reactor design was made infamous by the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. The construction of a fifth reactor unit started in the second part of the eighties, but it is still only 65% complete. Recent statements from Minatom indicates that the new unit will be completed within a few years.
Introduction Competitiveness has been the dominating topic in EU political discussions in recent months and is set to be a key focus of the upcomi...
Russia is a world leader in the construction of nuclear power plants abroad. Despite the sanctions pressure on Russia since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, its nuclear industry has remained virtually untouched.
Today, the Bellona Foundation is launching the establishment of the Center for Marine Restoration in Kabelvåg, Lofoten. At the same time, collaboration agreements related to the center were signed with Norrøna, the University of Tromsø, the Lofoten Council and Blue Harvest Technologies
To ensure that Germany achieves its goal of climate neutrality by 2045, negative emissions are necessary, as depicted in the global IPCC scenarios.