Monthly Highlights from the Russian Arctic, March 2024
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our main focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution risks 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. March 2024
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
Russia plans to restart Ukraine’s war-torn Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
Russian president Vladimir Putin has told the United Nations atomic energy watchdog that Russia plans to restart Ukraine’s embattled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, currently occupied by Russian troops and technicians, fueling worries about a serious nuclear accident on the front lines of a grinding military conflict.
Press Release – New Regulation on Construction Products adopted: first EU-level rules for green public procurement of building materials
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 | Brussels, Belgium – Today, the European Parliament approved the newly revised Construction Products regulation (CPR)...