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Publish date: December 21, 2005
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The missile hit a target at the Kura firing range on the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Russian Navys Captain Igor Dygalo told Ekho Moskvy radio. This was the first underwater launch of a Bulava missile and the second launch conducted as part of a series of tests of the missile, he said.
The Dmitry Donskoy, a Typhoon class ballistic missile submarine, carried out the first test surface launch of a Bulava missile from a point in the White Sea on Sept. 27, 2005. The Bulava (SS-NX-30) is the submarine-launched version of Russia’s most advanced missile, the Topol-M (SS-27) solid fuel ICBM.
The seaborne strategic missile system Bulava can carry at least 10 independently targetable nuclear warheads. Its effective radius is at least 8,000 kilometers.
Bulava was designed to arm advanced nuclear submarines (project 955; Borey type). Two of them are currently constructed at the North Dvina Engineering Works. "We are fairly certain that the Bulava missile system, and a new submarine to be equipped with it, will be deployed by our navy in 2008," the Russian defense minister Sergei Ivanov said.
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.