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Publish date: February 8, 2008
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The waste-laden ship, which is moored in the Kola Bay, poses a major threat against the city of Murmansk, environmental organizations including Bellona, say.
Project manager Nikolai Shunkov was quoted in the paper as saying the first phase of the project included elaborating documentation and preparting the Nerpa Shipyard in Sneznogorsk near Murmansk to handle the delicate work.
Representatives of the Aspekt-Konversia company confirmed to the paper that a grant agreement will be signed with the EBRD in late February or early March this year.
The technical support vessel Lepse presents the biggest nuclear and radiation risk of all retired nuclear service ships in Russia, Bellona has reported. In 1988, the vessel was taken out of service. The Lepse’s spent nuclear fuel hull holds 639 spent fuel assemblies in casks and caissons, and a significant portion of them is severely damaged, dramatically complicating procedures for safely removing them.
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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.