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Publish date: June 18, 2007
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153 RTGs at the beginning of 2001 were located within on the coasts of the Barents and White Seas (in the Murmansk and Arkhangelsk regions). 119 overall from the Murmansk District (85) and Arkhangelsk District (34) were removed, while 34 were left in Arkhangelsk (four of them at Novaya Zemlya Archipelago).
The combined radioactivity removed from all the RTGs was 10 million curie. The website b-port.com said that around 400 million rubles were spent on both taking down and recycling the RTGs and on installing solar charged batteries.
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.