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Publish date: September 9, 2003
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The checks are being carried out in the western part of the Kara Sea, deputy emergency minister Mikhail Faleyev told journalists. This is the area near former nuclear test site at Novaya Zemlya archipelago where K-27 nuclear submarine and one reactor from K-254 were disposed of in early 1980s. The disposal method involved sinking the sub and the reactor. The Emergency Ministry specialists will have to examine potentially dangerous sites, define the grade of their danger, and also find out the level of sea water and sediment pollution. After completing the expedition all the data will be included into the Register of Underwater Potentially Dangerous Objects. The specialists are conducting the research with the help of mobile complex of marine radiation control and remote controlled submersible AQUA-CHS, designed by Science Research Institute of Special Machinery Construction at the Moscow State Technical University. It was tested at the Black Sea prior to the current expedition.
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.