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Publish date: March 21, 1997
Written by: Igor Kudrik
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As it was reported by Bellona web pages earlier, the only operational vitrification facility for high level liquid wastes at Mayak reprocessing facility in Siberia, was taken out of operation earlier this year. The facility was 2,5 years past its operational limits.
The first vitrification facility is to be commissioned by the end of the current year, says Kaurov. The second will be finished by the middle of 1998. The project is financed by Minatom, through funds received as a result of selling weapons grade uranium to the US. During the last two years 18 tons of uranium have been shipped to USA. Planned shipments for this year amounts to another 18 tons. The whole deal, lasting until year 2013, is worth 12 billion US dollars.
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.