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: December 8, 1997
Written by: Igor Kudrik
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On November 28, 10:00 Moscow time, researcher at Dimitrovgrad Research Institute for Atomic Reactors received 35 mSv of radiation. The year dose is limited by 50 mSv.
According to Minatom press-centre, the engineer was careless while conducting work with radioactive sources. The engineer’s condition is normal, no need for special medical treatment.
Dimitrovgrad Research Institute for Atomic Reactors, located in Ulyanovskaya county, by the mid part of river Volga, was founded some 30 years ago, operating one nuclear research reactor. The reactor is mainly used to test nuclear fuel assemblies.
In the end of July there was an accident at the Institute. The discharge levels 18-fold above the norm lasted for a week. The reason to the incident was cracks in the nuclear fuel cladding what led to heavy contamination of the water from the primary circuit. As a result, radioactive gases hushed through the ventilation system into the environment.
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
To ensure that Germany achieves its goal of climate neutrality by 2045, negative emissions are necessary, as depicted in the global IPCC scenarios.