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: January 17, 2006
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A criminal investigation was opened against the plant, Mayak, in April 2005 after breaches of environmental protection regulations were found during an inspection that revealed the plant had released more than 10 million cubic meters of radioactive waste into the nearby Techa River.
The working group, which comprises Mayak executives and members of local environmental organizations, as well as others, will involve companies and foreign experts in the search for solutions to the problem. Russian environmentalists have called for the plant to be shut down.
The Nuclear Power Agency maintains that the plant is important for the country’s economic development, and Kiriyenko has said the agency will allocate 250 million rubles ($8.7 million) in 2006, or 2.5 times more than in 2005, to improve environmental safety at the Mayak plant. However, experts have suggested that this will not be enough to address all the problems, reported RIA Novosti.
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
To ensure that Germany achieves its goal of climate neutrality by 2045, negative emissions are necessary, as depicted in the global IPCC scenarios.