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Publish date: October 14, 2003
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The combine did not expect any shipments of spent nuclear fuel from Bulgaria this year, but because of an unpaid debt by Ukraine, the combine could suffer financial problems, and a decision was made for Zheleznogorsk to receive a part of the Bulgarian fuel originally destined for the Mayak reprocessing plant located in the Urals. This off-schedule delivery should save the Krasnoyarsk region’s budget $3.5m. Ukraine also is expected to pay its debt to the combine by the end of the year, adding $2.3m to the local budget. Bulgaria may send spent nuclear fuel one more time this year, Regnum.ru reported.
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.