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A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
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Publish date: November 16, 2005
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Tokyo and Moscow will finalise the agreement on November 21st, when Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper said, citing unnamed sources.
Japan has already spent about 700 million yen ($5.9m) to demolish a derelict Viktor Class submarine last December that had been decommissioned from the Russian nuclear Pacific Fleet. The fleet has some 40 other rusting submarines, many with their spent nuclear fuel still on board, awaiting dismantlement. They are scattered along the Far East coast of Russia, which makes speedy demolition problematic.
Japan will likely pay a similar amount for each of these next five, whose demolition work is slated to begin at the end of next year, the paper said.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
But it’s unlikely to impact emissions from shipping along the Northern Sea Route.
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.
The following op-ed, written by Bellona’s Charles Digges, originally appeared in The Moscow Times. In recent months, the Russian nuclear in...