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Publish date: August 29, 1997
Written by: Igor Kudrik
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The 25 year old TNT-25, once used for dumping operations in the Barents Sea (and last known to do that in 1991), has been moored at Zvezdochka yard for at least four years, unable to go out at sea. TNT’s hull is badly affected by corrosion and the boat requires dock repairs.
This time the money for the repairs is available; the problem is the 500 cubic meters of liquid radwaste stored on-board. This summer 450 cubic meters of radwaste from the tanker were processed (it was filled to capasity). For the remaining volume of the contaminated water, there is still no solution. The original plans presumed the dock repairs to be finished by the end of 1996.
The Northern Fleet operates four specially constructed tankers of the Vala class (project 1783A). Their average age is 25 years. A fifth Vala-class tanker was taken out of operation some three years ago.
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.
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our main focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution risks and climate change.