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Publish date: March 9, 2006
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During the nearest decades the country intends to built and install numerous windmills to supply its cities and villages, ITAR TASS reported. Nowadays the total capacity of all the windmills stands for one million kW.
China has a possibility to increase this capacity up to one billion kW. According to the plans of the Chinese State Committee on Development and Reforms, capacity of all the windmills in the country in three years will stand for 3.3 million kW, 4 million kW by 2010 and 30 million kW by 2020.
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.