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Publish date: November 18, 2004
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Yagrinsky Bridge in Severodvinsk connecting Zvezdochka plant engaged in nuclear submarine dismantling, with the continent. The bridge was built 50 years ago and was not originally designed to sustain 160 tonnes trains loaded with spent nuclear fuel. The new project includes construction of the new railway bridge and reconstruction of the old one, which is to become 3 meters wider for the traffic. The price tag for the whole project is about $15m. The project has to pass the final expert authority in Moscow for approval. Zvezdochka plant is hoping to get financing from the state budget and some part from the Northern Dimension fund operating in the frames of Global Partnership program. However, the media sources reported that the state budget had no money for the bridge repairs. The construction is scheduled to start next year and finish by 2007, Dvina-Inform reports.
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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