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Publish date: February 4, 2005
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The joint press conference took place in Oslo on February 2, 2005, after the Russian Minister of Natural Resources, Yury Trutnev and Norwegian Minister of Oil and Energy, Torild Widvey had had meeting. According to the Russian Minister, changing of the legislation on the natural resources usage will allow Russia to work in comfortable legislative conditions. Trutnev also underlined that his Ministry put on the 2005 agenda the development of the new environmental code. Issues of the environment and development of the resources bounded up closely and we should be active in this direction. Russian Federation is interested in Russian-Norwegian cooperation in the field of natural resources and advanced extraction technology, added Trutnev.
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.
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