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Publish date: June 24, 2004
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By August 1 the modernisation of the first unit should be completed which has been going on in stages since 1989 and the State Nuclear Regulatory should issue the licence said the LNPP representative. According to him the licence should be valid for 3-5 years with the possibility for prolongation. He also added that the first unit satisfies all modern requirements of the radiation safety and the state of its equipment allows extending its lifetime for 15 years.
The price of the modernisation is not announced, but the experts believe it is 25% of the new unit, i.e. $200m. The money was allocated by the local and state budget as well as Rosenergoatom concern. The 30-years lifetime of the first unit was expired back in December 2003.
According to Echo-St Petersburg, 5 incidents at the Leningrad, Balakovo and Kola NPPs were registered in May when automatic safety shutdown system was triggered.
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.
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