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: November 5, 2004
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The opening ceremony of the new fourth reactor at the Rivno NPP took place just recently on October 16. The shutdown was triggered by the oil leak in the electrical generator yesterday. The incident did not influence the radiation situation at the plant and around it. The repair works should be finished by the end of November 7, ForUm reported. The 4th unit of VVER-1000 type at the Rivno NPP has 1 million kW capacity.
On October 13, the second reactor unit at the South-Ukrainian NPP suffered an automatic shutdown. First, the faulty turbine automatics control system led to the 78% capacity reduction of the unit. Then the strange sounds were heard from the turbine. The plants staff decided to conduct emergency shutdown of the second unit, but the shutdown operation did not go smoothly as some power disturbances hit the reactors control and protection system what triggered the reactor shutdown. According to the reports, the radiation situation remained normal. On October 14, the reactor was operated at the minimum controlled capacity.
Today 11 of 15 nuclear reactor units are in operation in Ukraine.
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.