Monthly Highlights from the Russian Arctic, July 2024
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution and climate change.
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Publish date: August 5, 2003
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The first experimental solar lighthouses were produced at the Crimea Electrical Engineering Plant Saturn. According to murman.ru, the units have been delivered to Murmansk. One of them will be installed in Norway, the other at the Kola bay at the Shavor lighthouse in Russia. These two first lighthouses is the first step to implement Russian-Norwegian project on radioisotope thermal generators decommissioning on the Kola Peninsula. Fifty RTGs have been already eliminated during the past 3 years thanks to this project. It takes from 900 to1000 years before the radioisotope generator becomes safe. The new solar panels of the lighthouses will accumulate the energy in the daytime and then use it in the night-time. Norway will finance production of 40 solar powered lighthouses if these two first units show good results. The designers give 20 years operation guarantee. For example, the first experimental solar lighthouse has been working in Azov sea for 17 years.
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution and climate change.
UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi on Tuesday warned during a visit to Russia's Kursk nuclear plant that its proximity to ongoing fighting was "extremely serious" following Ukraine's cross-border offensive into the southwestern Kursk region earlier this month.
Two years after laying the cornerstone for the production facility, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre inaugurated Morrow Batteries, Europe’s first giga...
It is a scenario the Russian side is taking seriously. Already Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, had begun withdrawing staff from the plant and Russian troops are hastily digging trenches around it