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: June 9, 2000
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Agency PRIME-TASS, referring to Steven Pifer, American ambassador to Ukraine, reported that the United States are to allocate $30 million for the reconstruction works at 14 Ukrainian nuclear reactors. This will allow further usage of the alternative types of nuclear fuel in accordance with the signed agreement. He also said that it will let Ukraine buy the nuclear fuel not only from one supplier (Russia). Usage of alternative suppliers of the nuclear fuel will allow to reduce its price significantly, Mr. Pifer said. “We estimate that Ukraine can save if not hundreds then dozens of million dollars annually thanks to the agreement,” the diplomat said.
Russian company “TVEL” delivers fuel to Ukrainian NPPs
According to Ukrainian State company “Energoatom” (Kiev), all 14 Ukrainian reactors are designed to use only fuel produced by Russia’s company “TVEL.”
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.