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Publish date: September 3, 2004
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A substantial contribution to the further development of good-neighbourly relations between the two countries, the politician believes, can be made by a Russian-Japanese programme for scrapping the decommissioned submarines of the Pacific Fleet. “The government of Japan has already allocated 180 million dollars for the realisation of this major and important military and environmental project,” said Kazunori.
The Japanese delegation visited the town of Bolshoi Kamen, where at the Zvezda shipyard recycling nuclear submarines, it got acquainted with progress in the disposal of Victor 3 Class nuclear submarines. In the current year, with financial support from Japan, Zvezda is already scrapping the first Victor 3 submarine. The dismantling of the next nuclear submarine is planned for 2005. All in all, there are more than 40 decommissioned submarines of the Russian Pacific Fleet waiting for disposal. Japan has already poured 250 million dollars in the Star of Hope decommissioning programme, AFP reported.
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.
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