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Publish date: November 10, 1997
Written by: Thomas Nilsen
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The new agreement implies that spent fuel from the Hungarian pressurised water reactors will be stored in Russia for up to 20 years, reports the French news agency AFP. Hungary has no storage capability for spent nuclear fuel. Earlier, the country sent all its spent fuel to Russia for reprocessing at the plant in Majak. The reprocessing contract was originally valid until 1999. With the new agreement, Russia now committed itself to store, rather than reprocess the Hungarian waste. Within 20 years, Hungary must establish its own waste storage facility and reclaim the spent fuel stored in Russia under the new pact.
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.