
The fragile environmental coalitions cleaning up the Black Sea oil spill
This article by Angelina Davydova, editor of Bellona’s Ecology & Rights magazine, first appeared in The Moscow Times. The oil spill in ...
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Publish date: February 21, 2008
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The plan was announced during a meeting between Governor Yury Yevdokimov and the governor of Norway’s Finnmark county, Gunnar Kjonnoy, in Kirkenes, a Norwegian town near the Russian border.
The funds will be used to renovate the area around the Andreyeva bay nuclear storage facility – where much waste is stored in the open air – located 48 kilometres from the Norwegian border.
Europe’s largest nuclear waste storage facility holds some 21,000 spent nuclear fuel assemblies with 35 metric tons of radioactive materials, and 12,000 cubic meters of solid and liquid waste, mostly removed from nuclear powered submarines and icebreakers.
The storage facility was set up some 40 year ago as a provisional facility. Foreign partners, such as the United Kingdom, Norway and Sweden, were invited in the early 2000s to make preparations for the removal of nuclear waste from the site.
International experts have repeatedly raised concerns over environmental threats posed by the facility. Poor maintenance and the severe Arctic climate could cause severe leakage into the bay, which is located on a Barents Sea.
This article by Angelina Davydova, editor of Bellona’s Ecology & Rights magazine, first appeared in The Moscow Times. The oil spill in ...
The following speech was given by Bellona nuclear expert Dmitry Gorchakov at the Arctic Frontiers conference, which was in session this week in Troms...
Social media are ablaze after Bellona founder Frederic Hauge met Motvind’s Eivind Salen on Norwegian national broadcaster NRK’s Debatten program last night.
"Maritime transport along the Northern Sea Route remains a bad idea. Even with a warmer climate, cold, wind and darkness will define the Arctic winter," said Bellona's Senior Adviser Sigurd Enge to a packed hall at the Arctic Frontiers conference.