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Publish date: January 24, 2005
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By 2007, 120 reactor compartments should be placed in the on-shore storage facility in Sayda bay. Shipyard Nerpas specialists prepare the empty reactor compartments for the shipment and further storage, i.e. they secure that the reactor compartments are hermetic and floatable. The Pallada dock will ship these compartments to the Sayda bay. It is expected that 20 reactor compartments will be already shipped by August. The German specialists from Energiewerke Nord company are monitoring the schedule and the quality of works, Interfax reported.
Pallada dock, which was used for Kursk submarine shipment to the Nerpa shipyard, is the main part in the Russian-German deal, which is aimed at cleaning up the contaminated Sayda Bay and providing, over the course of the next six years, a temporary onshore reactor compartment storage facility. The 300m expenditure is seen by Germany as part of its obligation to the framework of the 10 plus 10 over 10 plan agreed upon by the Group of Eight industrialised nations, or G-8, in 2002 at the groups summit in Kananaskis, Canada.
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.
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution and climate change.