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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Solar panels installed at Sochi University
Publish date: February 22, 2005
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Solar panels installed at Sochi University
Special helio-system, working on solar energy, provides Sochi University with hot water.
Scientists of Black Sea Energy Efficiency Center based in the Sochi State University assembled the system. Such panels will be installed in all the University buildings in the nearest future. So we can save money for the students support said Grigory Yakovenko, the rector of the University. He said that solar energy would help to reduce the utility costs. Administration of the University plans to spend saved money on students social support, Uga.ru informs.
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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.