Monthly Highlights from the Russian Arctic, October 2024
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution and climate change.
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$3.5m for radiation victims in Urals
Publish date: August 9, 2005
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$3.5m for radiation victims in Urals
This sum is suggested to allocate every year from the Russian State budget to support the victims and their descendants who suffered during the accident at the Mayak plant in 1957, Ural-press-inform reported in July.
A thermic explosion in a storage tank for liquid high active waste happened in 1957. It is often referred to as the Kyshtym accident. About 74 PBq (10% of the total emission) were spread over a region north northeast of Mayak affecting about 15,000 km2
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Bellona Nuclear Digest. October 2024
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
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.
Moscow snips last ties to cooperative nuclear cleanup agreement with West
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.