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Publish date: March 22, 2004
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This year the priority will be given to the new generation submarines Severodvinsk and Yury Dolgoruky of Borey project. Significant resources will be spent for the equipment of these nuclear submarines. Never before the plants demands for the funding were fully financed, but this year the Sevmash plant received 100% of the needed sum.
Sevmash also continues testing of the upgraded Dmitry Donskoy and holds guarantee for the recently built Gepard, Tigr, Arkhangelsk, which were transferred to the navy. The state also allocated money to complete suspended Belgorod nuclear submarine, which should substitute Kursk and gained the sad reputation of the long haul among the workers. But according to media reports, some specialists believe the money allocated is not enough to complete its construction. It is also planned to begin repairs of the nuclear cruiser Admiral Nakhimov and maybe unload nuclear fuel if the funds allow, Storozhilov said to ITAR-TASS. The Russian Defence budget is $14,442 billion in 2004 and is one of the biggest items of the Russian State budget for 2004.
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.