Balancing competitiveness and climate objectives: Bellona Europa’s insights on the Draghi Report
Introduction Competitiveness has been the dominating topic in EU political discussions in recent months and is set to be a key focus of the upcomi...
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Publish date: March 18, 1997
Written by: Igor Kudrik
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In 1986, after the Chernobyl accident, senior researcher at the Scientific Research Radio-physical Institute, Boris Nemtsov, joined a campaign collecting signatures against the construction of Gorkiy Nuclear Power plant in Nizhniy Novgorod County. Later on he was one of the organisers of the county public foundation called "For nuclear safety".
In 1989 the foundation promoted Nemtsov as a candidate to the Supreme Soviet of USSR, although Nemtsov had not taken part in the election campaign. The communist majority of the regional election committee refused his candidature. In 1990 Nemtsov became a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of Russia. In December 1991, after the USSR break-up, Yeltsin signed a decree appointing Nemtsov governor of Nizhniy Novgorod county.
The Nuclear Power Plant in Nizhniy Novgorod county never was to be constructed.
There seems to be some justification within this story for believing that Nemtsov might create a much needed opposition to the nuclear lobby, which traditionally has had a very strong position within the Russian Government.
Introduction Competitiveness has been the dominating topic in EU political discussions in recent months and is set to be a key focus of the upcomi...
Russia is a world leader in the construction of nuclear power plants abroad. Despite the sanctions pressure on Russia since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, its nuclear industry has remained virtually untouched.
Today, the Bellona Foundation is launching the establishment of the Center for Marine Restoration in Kabelvåg, Lofoten. At the same time, collaboration agreements related to the center were signed with Norrøna, the University of Tromsø, the Lofoten Council and Blue Harvest Technologies
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