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Publish date: May 31, 2005
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The Russian-British project will be presented by the British company Crown Agents and the Murmansk Shipping Company and Atomflot Federal Company. At the moment, the £4.6m contract for all construction works is signed at the Atomflot. Earlier a £2.6m contract was signed for non-standard equipment delivery. According to the project, the facility should be ready in April 2006.
The Atomflot officials also said to Interfax about ongoing negotiations regarding UK financial participation in construction of 50 containers TUK-120 for spent nuclear fuel storage and shipment. They said the state commission would never accept the facility if containers for spent nuclear fuel were not ready.
The onshore storage facility will be used for the spent nuclear fuel stored currently onboard service ship Lotta. Then Lotta will get place for 14 additional reactor zones from the laid up submarines.
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.