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Unit 2 lifetime prolongation at Leningrad NPP

Publish date: September 30, 2005

Rostekhnadzor, Russian State licencing company, is preparing to prolong the service time of the second reactor unit at the Leningrad NPP, the head of nuclear sites safety department of Rostekhnadzor Valery Bezzubtsev said to Interfax.

The unit is currently being overhauled to get service time extension. It should be reportedly back in operation on May 28, 2006. So far, total five reactors at the Kola NPP, Leningrad NPP and Novovoronezh NPP were granted service time extension.

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The role of CCS in Germany’s climate toolbox: Bellona Deutschland’s statement in the Association Hearing

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.

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Bellona’s new working paper analyzes Russia’s big LNG ambitions the Arctic

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.