Balancing competitiveness and climate objectives: Bellona Europa’s insights on the Draghi Report
Introduction Competitiveness has been the dominating topic in EU political discussions in recent months and is set to be a key focus of the upcomi...
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Publish date: January 9, 2004
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We are simply barred from that very lucrative market, Rumyantsev said. According to Rumyantsev, the world market of SNF has been long divided among other countries, first of all the USA and France. Indeed, the United States controls an estimated 80 to 90 percent of the worlds SNF.
No negotiations on possible contracts are being held presently, he added. Legislation allowing the import of SNF to Russia for temporary storage and procession was passed amid heated debate in 2001. Minatom at the time promised that some $20 billion over the next 20 years would flow into government coffers because of the import plan.
But the importswhich include only a handful of former Soviet Bloc countries, some of whom are given large discounts because they cannot afford to pay the going rate for storagehave failed to materialise on the scale the ministry predicted. Various polls have shown that up to 90 percent of the Russian public is opposed to the import of foreign spent nuclear fuel.
Introduction Competitiveness has been the dominating topic in EU political discussions in recent months and is set to be a key focus of the upcomi...
Russia is a world leader in the construction of nuclear power plants abroad. Despite the sanctions pressure on Russia since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, its nuclear industry has remained virtually untouched.
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