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: May 19, 2003
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«The return of the spent nuclear fuel is in a process of licensing», Deputy Chairman of the Bulgarian Agency on Nuclear Regulation, Borislav Stanimirov, said to the BNN. «Bulgaria obviously has Russias consent to return that fuel», Stanimirov told the BNN. On April 30th, during a press conference in Chelyabinsk Vitaly Sadovnikiov, the General Director of Mayak plant, informed that they had reached a certain agreement with the Bulgaria regarding the shipments of spent nuclear fuel from Kozloduy nuclear plant. They expect the train with spent nuclear fuel to arrive at Mayak in June. As Nuclear.Ru was explained by Yevgeny Ryzhkov, the Mayak Public Information Group, «The train consists of 7-8 cars with 3 ton capacity each», said Ryzhkov adding that the expected 20 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel would not help to load fully RT-1 plant, which operates at 20-25% of its capacity (the plant design capacity if 400 metric tons a year). Besides, only a part of this fuel will go for reprocessing leaving the rest for a long-term storage. Three years are to pass before the reprocessing starts. «We have all legal grounds for this activity since the amendments were done to Article 50 of the Federal Law on Environmental Protection which allows import of spent nuclear fuel for storage and reprocessing», Ryzhkov underlined.
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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