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Publish date: November 30, 2005
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The program includes six gas condensate fields on the peninsula, the Yety-Purovskoe, the Vyngayakhinskoe, the Yen-Yakhinskoe, Yamburgskoe and the Zapolyarnoe, BarentsObserver reported.
The Gazprom press office also confirms that the company intends to significantly step up construction and modernization works of pipeline infrastructure leading from Yamal, and first of all the North-European pipeline, the Yamal-Europe line and the SRTO-Torzhok line.
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.
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.