Putin leaves Kazakhstan without deal to build nuclear plant
A visit last week by Vladimir Putin and a Kremlin entourage to Astana, Kazakhstan sought in part to put Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, on good footing with local officials.
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Publish date: July 1, 2004
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This information was received after spectrometric analyses of the source. The source was not inside the container as it was assumed before, ITAR-TASS reported on April 23d.
The local police took measures to find the owner of the container and the radiation source. There is no threat to the environment or the local population, ITAR-TASS reported. The metal container was found in Beloyarsk district in Sverdlovsk region on the road between Yekaterinburg and Tyumen close to a café. The specialists of the Ministry of Emergencies detected gamma radiation equal to 2,800 mikroroentgen per hour (20 muR/h is normal).
A visit last week by Vladimir Putin and a Kremlin entourage to Astana, Kazakhstan sought in part to put Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, on good footing with local officials.
Russia is formally withdrawing from a landmark environmental agreement that channeled billions in international funding to secure the Soviet nuclear legacy, leaving undone some of the most radioactively dangerous projects and burning one more bridge of potential cooperation with the West.
While Moscow pushes ahead with major oil, gas and mining projects in the Arctic—bringing more pollution to the fragile region—the spoils of these undertakings are sold to fuel Russia’s war economy, Bellona’s Ksenia Vakhrusheva told a side event at the COP 29, now underway in Baku, Azerbaijan.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.