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Publish date: February 7, 2006
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The reconstruction works are carried out in the frames of the Agreement between the Russian Minatom and the US Department of Energy signed March 12, 2003. It concerns closure of the plutonium production at the reactors ADE-4 and ADE-5 in Seversk, Tomsk region, and ADE-2 in Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk region.
Representatives of the Russian Federal Nuclear Agency, Rosatomstroy, Siberian Chemical Combine, Russian design institutes and construction companies took part in the meeting. The US part was represented by the Department of Energy and Washington Group International. All the works are sponsored by the US government. The next meeting will be held in Tomsk in April.
Recent attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant "mark the beginning of a new and gravely dangerous front of the war," the UN atomic agency's director general said last week.
After years of inaction, Germany is working on its Carbon Management Strategy to resolve how CCS can play a role in climate action in industry. At the end of February, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action published first key points and a proposal to amend the law Kohlenstoffdioxid Speicherungsgesetz (KSpG). Bellona Deutschland, who was actively involved in the previous stakeholder dialogue submitted a statement in the association hearing.
In the midst of a global discussion on whether natural gas should be used as a transitional fuel and whether emissions from its extraction, production, transport and use are significantly less than those from other fossil fuels, Russia has developed ambitious plans to increase its own production of liquified natural gas (LNG) in the Arctic – a region with 75% of proven gas reserves in Russia – to raise its share in the international gas trade.
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.