Bellona nuclear digest. August 2024
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
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Publish date: August 23, 2004
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Deputy Secretary of Energy Kyle McSlarrow informed the Russian Federal Agency on Atomic Energy that he approved $36m to order equipment with long-term delivery time. One of the main stages of the reactors replacement project is reconstruction of the heating plant. If all the plans come true then by 2008 Seversk would be heated only from one source, the heating plant. The plutonium reactors will be shutdown. The project is fully covered by the USA, Vremya Tomskoe reported.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
Kazakhstan voted in a referendum last weekend on whether to build its first nuclear power plant, and an exit poll showed voters backed the idea promoted by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's cabinet in an effort to phase out coal plants.
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