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Publish date: April 21, 2005
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Sergey Antipov said that to the Interfax agency in March. Before 2004, Russia allocated more money for the submarines dismantling, but last year the shares became equal. Russia did not reduce financing and continues to allocate about $72m annually, while the foreign partners have significantly increased financial assistance. He said it had taken three years for the paper work and now more and more contracts are being signed what shows the results. All the retired nuclear submarines should be scrapped by 2010. Today 84 nuclear submarines have to be decommissioned.
According to the head of the Federal Nuclear Agency Alexander Rumyantsev, $4 billion is needed for nuclear submarines decommissioning program till 2010, SPB-TASS reported. 59 retired nuclear submarines still have nuclear fuel onboard, Rumyantsev added. Fifteen submarines are scheduled for dismantling by the end of 2005. The price tag for this year dismantling is $120-130m, he concluded.
The G8 "Global Partnership against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction WMD" issued by the world’s eight leading industrial nations Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Russia Federation, the UK and the USat the G8 Summit on 27 June 2002, is an initiative aimed at accounting, securing and clearing up Russia’s nuclear legacy.
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.