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Publish date: October 19, 2004
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According to ITAR-TASS, on September 23 the specialists of the reactor department of the Zheleznogorsk Chemical Combine stopped the ADE-2 reactor. The shut down was carried out for maintenance works to increase reliability and safety of the reactors operation. The reactor was put in operation in 1964 and remains the main heat source for Zheleznogorsk. During maintenance works the boiler plants of the Combine, which use coal and residual oil, heat the town. The maintenance works were expected to take 10 days but there were still no reports in the mass media about the Zheleznogorsk reactor start.
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.