Monthly Highlights from the Russian Arctic, October 2024
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.
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New power unit for tidal power plant is delivered to Murmansk
Publish date: January 16, 2007
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New power unit for tidal power plant is delivered to Murmansk
New Sevmash engineered power block for tidal power station has been towered to the Barents Sea coast.
The construction will start near Kislogubskaya tidal power station in January. The power plant is an experimental site for testing of new technologies, Murman.ru reports. Sevmash plant specialists will participate in these works.
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Bellona Nuclear Digest. October 2024
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
Putin leaves Kazakhstan without deal to build nuclear plant
A visit last week by Vladimir Putin and a Kremlin entourage to Astana, Kazakhstan sought in part to put Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, on good footing with local officials.
Moscow snips last ties to cooperative nuclear cleanup agreement with West
Russia is formally withdrawing from a landmark environmental agreement that channeled billions in international funding to secure the Soviet nuclear legacy, leaving undone some of the most radioactively dangerous projects and burning one more bridge of potential cooperation with the West.