
Russia’s Chernobyl-style reactors to keep operating until the end of the decade
Recent announcements by Russian nuclear officials that they will extend the runtimes of several Chernobyl-style RBMK nuclear reactors shed light on t...
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Publish date: November 6, 1998
Written by: Thomas Nilsen
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Amnesty International’s Bill Bowring, a human rights lawyer, observed the Nikitin trial in St. Petersburg last month. Amnesty argued that Nikitin’s situation after the trial violates both his constitutional right to have the charges against him settled by a court of justice, and his right under international law to be tried within reasonable time.
After last month’s trial, where judge Sergei Golets sent the case back for new investigation, Amnesty International says they haven’t changed their position. "We still believe Nikitin should be unconditionally acquitted," says Katzarova. She underlines that judge Golets has been ‘very courageous’ in sending the case back, given that it was raised by the FSB, successor to the former KGB. Never before in Soviet and Russian history was an indictment of treason through espionage dismissed by the court.
Amnesty says another round of investigations into the Nikitin case will yield nothing new. "Nikitin has been under investigation for three years, and the prosecution has not managed – and never will manage – to come up with an indictment with a tenable judicial foundation," says Katzarova. Amnesty International adopted Aleksandr Nikitin as a prisoner of conscience in 1996, the first Russian citizen to be named so in post-Soviet history.
Recent announcements by Russian nuclear officials that they will extend the runtimes of several Chernobyl-style RBMK nuclear reactors shed light on t...
Europe’s only multi-source, injection-ready CO₂ storage site will more than triple its capacity by 2028. The decision follows an agreement with Stockholm Exergi to transport and store up to 800 – 900 kilotonnes of CO₂ per year. “This decision is years in the making, and the culmination of decades of hard work from many, Bellona included” says Bellona Europa Director Jonas Helseth.
Days after the Trump administration floated the idea of assuming control of Ukraine’s embattled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant as part of the nascent pea...
During a call between President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and US President Donald Trump, the US leader reportedly floated an unusual idea—that Ky...