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Publish date: September 1, 1997
Written by: Igor Kudrik
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Negotiations were held in Dehli earlier this week, while the Russian Minister for Nuclear Energy, Victor Michailov, visited India. The ministry reached an agreement with India to launch the construction of a Russian designed nuclear power plant based on VVER-1000 reactors. The agreement is expected to enter contract in the near future, adding to Russia’s new nuclear export drive. Earlier, Russia has reached agreements to start construction of nuclear power plants in China and Iran.
Michailov claimed that a number of countries, such as Indonesia, Malaysia and other in South-Eastern Asia, have expressed their interest in Russia nuclear engineering, in particular in the floating nuclear power plants.
India already has ten nuclear reactors in operation, of western designs.
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.