
Moscow plans to wire seized Ukrainian nuclear plant to its own grid, says report
Moscow is building powerlines in Russian-occupied southeastern Ukraine to link the major nuclear power plant it seized as a prize of war to its own e...
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Publish date: October 23, 1997
Written by: Thomas Nilsen
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Several projects on nuclear security on the Kola Peninsula have been postponed lately, due to western companies demanding exemption from responsibility in case their equipment should be involved in accidents at the nuclear installations. Disagreement on the responsibility question caused the Lepse project in Murmansk to enter a stand-still several months ago. Several other projects involving delivery of western security equipment to Russian nuclear power plants have been delayed due to similar disagreements.
–The Russian ministry for nuclear energy – Minatom – has recommended that the Duma exempts from import duty all western equipment delivered to Russian nuclear plants and aimed at improving security, and that the companies delivering such equipment shall bear no responsibility if something goes wrong after the equipment has been put to use, says Vitaly Shelest. He adds that a decision on this should be taken by the Duma before the year’s end.
French company SGN, which has developed special equipment to lift out the used nuclear fuel from radwaste storage ship Lepse in Murmansk, has put exemption from responsibility as a required condition for applying the equipment.
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