
The fragile environmental coalitions cleaning up the Black Sea oil spill
This article by Angelina Davydova, editor of Bellona’s Ecology & Rights magazine, first appeared in The Moscow Times. The oil spill in ...
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Publish date: July 13, 2000
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According to Taipei Times Taipower has confirmed that a memorandum had been signed with the Russian Kurchatov Institute to transfer nuclear waste to Russia. As earlier reported on Bellona Web Russian leading nuclear research centre, the Kurchatov Institute, is pushing a project to build a radwaste storage site at Simushir Island, one of the Kuril Islands in the Russian Far East. In an attempt to obtain the Russian government’s endorsement of the project, the institute says it will only store its own waste there, but the documents obtained by the Russian envirogroup Ecodefence! reveal that negotiations have been conducted behind the scenes with potential clients from Taiwan.
Division head of Taipowers public affairs department, Mr. Huang Huei-yu, said, Its just a preliminary plan involving 5,000 barrels of nuclear waste. Taipower said also it was working with other countries, including North Korea and China, to find sites for final disposal of its waste.
So far there are 97,000 barrels in a temporary storage at Orchid Island, which according to Taiwans Atomic Energy Council has to be removed. The time schedule for the removal is not decided.
Taiwans nuclear waste may be deposited in Russia if a change in the Russian legislation, banning import of nuclear waste, is changed. The Russian legislation might be amended in September to allow imports of both spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste into the country. The bill amending the Russian Law on Environmental Protection is due to be considered in the Russian Duma in September or October this year.
This article by Angelina Davydova, editor of Bellona’s Ecology & Rights magazine, first appeared in The Moscow Times. The oil spill in ...
The following speech was given by Bellona nuclear expert Dmitry Gorchakov at the Arctic Frontiers conference, which was in session this week in Troms...
Social media are ablaze after Bellona founder Frederic Hauge met Motvind’s Eivind Salen on Norwegian national broadcaster NRK’s Debatten program last night.
"Maritime transport along the Northern Sea Route remains a bad idea. Even with a warmer climate, cold, wind and darkness will define the Arctic winter," said Bellona's Senior Adviser Sigurd Enge to a packed hall at the Arctic Frontiers conference.