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Sweden allocates $30 million to Russia’s nuclear waste recycling

Publish date: May 20, 2005

Sweden will help Russia to handle the liquid nuclear waste on the Kola Peninsula.

According to the SevRAO nuclear waste management, Sweden will allocate 30 million USD for the project. A group of inspectors from the donor countries like Sweden, Great Britain and Norway is currently visiting Murmansk Oblast. On May 18, the group visited the Kola Peninsula’s nuclear waste storage facility in Andreyeva Bay, where the international project is progressing. The inspectors said they were satisfied with the speed of its implementation, Interfax reported.

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The role of CCS in Germany’s climate toolbox: Bellona Deutschland’s statement in the Association Hearing

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.

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Bellona’s new working paper analyzes Russia’s big LNG ambitions the Arctic

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.