Monthly Highlights from the Russian Arctic, October 2024
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution and climate change.
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Strike at Leningrad NPP
Publish date: December 17, 1999
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Strike at Leningrad NPP
4000 employees of Leningrad nuclear power plant staged one hour protest today. The strikers’ demand was to index their salaries to inflation, Green World Association reported. The inflation rate was 40,4%. The management of the plant said the strike was illegal and might threaten issuing of the licence to prolong the lifetime of the plant’s four RBMK-1000 reactors. The plant sustained its operation during the strike.
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Bellona Nuclear Digest. October 2024
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
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.
Moscow snips last ties to cooperative nuclear cleanup agreement with West
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.