The Arctic as a resource base
What’s wrong with Russia’s official documents on the Arctic.
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Publish date: April 15, 1998
Written by: Igor Kudrik
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Two engineers were exposed to high levels of radiation while performing refuelling of one of the reactors at Bilibino Nuclear Power Plant. According to official returns, the engineers violated safety regulations what led to the incident. One of the operators received 0,09 Sv of radiation, the dose for the other one was counted as 0,012 Sv (the yearly permitted radiation dose is 0,05 Sv). According to IAEA, the incident scored 2-d level on International Nuclear Events Scale (INES).
Bilibino nuclear power plant operates on 4 EGP-12 reactor units of LWGR type, commissioned in 1973, 1974, 1975 and 1976.
In addition, there were emergency power reductions at the reactors of Kalinin, Novovoronezh and Leningrad nuclear power plants, which occurred during March, reported GAN.
What’s wrong with Russia’s official documents on the Arctic.
As uranium supplies from Russia fall under the shadow of potential sanctions, and while Ukraine’s allies look to wean themselves off nuclear fuel produced by Moscow’s Rosatom corporation, owners of left-for-dead mines in the US are looking to revive their deposits.
The European Union doubled its purchases of Russian nuclear fuel in 2023, data from Eurostat and the UN’s international trade service Comtrade show.
The output of Russian nuclear power plants in 2023 decreased by 2.8% compared to 2022. A decrease in output occurred for the first time in 10 years a...