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Publish date: October 21, 2004
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Canada will sponsor the dismantlement of this multipurpose nuclear submarine, the shipyards press secretary Natalya Scherbinina told ITAR-TASS. The navy tugged the submarine to the shipyard. The shipyard is soon expecting the second Canadian submarine. Total three submarines will be scrapped with the help of Canada in the frames of the Global Partnership program signed by G8 countries in 2002. Canada allocates total $18m for dismantling of all three submarines.
Besides, the French delegation visited Zvezdochka in the end of September. The representatives of the group Technicatom examined the necessity for reconstruction of the facility for low-level radioactive waste burning. The document on further co-operation was signed as a result of the visit. The French party is ready to sign a contract with Zvezdochka on reconstruction of this facility immediately after the agreement on technical assistance between Russia and France is signed.
Throughout the past year, our mission at the Bellona Environmental Transparency Center has focused on two key, but intertwined issues—nuclear and radiation safety as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drags on, and the worldwide influence of Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, which itself is actively involved in the war and has participated in the occupation of a Ukrainian nuclear power plant.
At the beginning of the year, reports in the German and Russian press suggested an approximate 70% increase in uranium imports from Russia to Germany in 2024. But does this reflect broader European trends? It does not. Overall, imports of uranium and nuclear fuel from Russia to Western countries actually dropped sharply in 2024. Unlike the situation in Germany, this is already an established trend.
A Lingen, Germany plant could begin producing nuclear fuel in cooperation with a subsidiary of Rosatom, Russia's state nuclear corporation, which is directly involved in the war in Ukraine and occupying the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
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