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Publish date: February 15, 2006
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Several companies have successfully established new reloading points in the Kola Bay the last years. Today Murmansk port considers building of several more terminals, BarentsObserver reported. One of the planned terminals in the port area is expected to handle raw oil, while several other terminals have combined functions for both oil products and raw oil. There are also plans for the construction of specialized terminals, which handle exclusively processed products, like diesel, condensate and masut.
One of the companies operating in the Kola Bay is the Kommandit Servis. This company has reconstructed facilities previously owned by the Northern Fleet and now exports oil products to Singapore, the USA and Western Europe. A 68,000 ton tanker in the Kola Bay functions as terminal, the capacity of which will be increased from 2.5 million tons per year to annual 3 million within 1.5 years.
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.