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.
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Publish date: March 22, 2005
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Authors of the report say that usual energy saving is more economically effective then building of hundreds of new wind turbines. Wind power is considered to be one of the most perspective directions of energy development for decades. Its main advantage is environmentally purity windmills do not pollute the atmosphere, do not require fuel, and they are almost safe. Now Germany is the world leader in amount of operating windmills, 15,000 windmills were built in the country during the last 15 years. Their number will double by the year 2010. Germany plans to produce not less then 20% of energy by means of renewables by 2015, Vremya novostey reported.
German government agency, responsible for this direction, does not belong to supporters of the idea. Stefan Kohler a chief of the Agency said: “The fact that wind energy is expensive is incontestable. Usual methods (of energy production) are cheaper”. Anyway, Germany is not going to refuse from “environmental power” development. German government plans to allocate 1.1 billion euros for plugging windmills to the German grid. The main argument for wind power is environment protection and reduction of carbon dioxide discharge to the atmosphere.
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.
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.
While Moscow pushes ahead with major oil, gas and mining projects in the Arctic—bringing more pollution to the fragile region—the spoils of these undertakings are sold to fuel Russia’s war economy, Bellona’s Ksenia Vakhrusheva told a side event at the COP 29, now underway in Baku, Azerbaijan.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.