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Publish date: September 13, 2007
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The project, code named 20120, came to light when details were inadvertently posted on the web site of the Novgorod region town of Sarov, Kommersant said.
The original press release in which the details were released had been removed from the web site as of Wednesday, though a copy could still be accessed at the web portal Sarov-city.ru.
A woman who answered the phone at the Sarov city administration Wednesday said no one was available to comment, Reuters reported. A navy spokesman also declined to comment.
The specifications for the 20120 and the secrecy around it suggested that it contained technology that was radically different from any submarines in service, Kommersant reported. It said the design could involve installing a small nuclear reactor on a diesel-powered sub to extend the time it can operate without surfacing.
Earlier this year, Russia launched the Yury Dolgoruky nuclear submarine, its first new-generation sub since the end of Soviet rule, Reuters reported.
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.