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Publish date: October 18, 2004
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About $180m have been invested into the reconstruction of the first and the second unit of the Kola NPP. This sum covered 80 upgrade operation at the two reactors. The plants management claimes the units follow the world safety standards now, RIA Novosti reported. Units no.3 and 4 should be prepared for reconstruction in 2005. Moreover, the construction of the reprocessing facility for the liquid radioactive waste at the Kola NPP is going on now and is due to start operation this year. TACIS programme is sponsoring the facility, while German NUKEM manufactures it.
The Russian Government program on atomic industry development from 1998 to 2005 and until 2010 stipulates prolongation of the Russian reactors lifetime over its 30-years design lifetime.
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.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
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.
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.