Nuclear issues

Nuclear fuel and radioactive waste remains lethal for centuries to come and the world has yet to discover safe ways to store it. Bellona focuses on nuclear energy and its pitfalls. It also follows the progress of Cold War legacy nuclear remediation.

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Nuclear issues

November 7, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia

Bellona’s position on the import of depleted uranium to Russia

At the end of last month, Russian media reported that containers of depleted uranium hexafluoride, owned by the Western European company […]

November 4, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia

Dispatch from Zheleznogorsk: How Russia injects radioactive waste into the ground

In early September, experts from Rosatom’s Public Council for civil society visited the Severny Landfill – a site created for the deep […]

November 1, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia

Russia resumes importing depleted uranium from Germany, breaching old promises

Environmental groups have voiced concern that Russia is again accepting shipments of uranium tails, a byproduct formed when uranium is […]

October 3, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia

First fuel assemblies leave the Lepse, Russia’s most hazardous nuclear ship

The first containers of nuclear fuel have been removed from the Lepse service ship, Russia’s waterborne atomic graveyard, marking a major […]

September 11, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Meltdown in Japan

Japan may have to dump radioactive water from Fukushima into the sea

Japan’s environmental minister has said the country may have to dump more than a million tons of radioactively contaminated water from the […]

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Private: Nils Bøhmer

Managing director
nils@bellona.no
+47 900 37 517

Nils Bøhmer has been managing director of the Bellona Foundation since 2006, after he worked 13 years at Bellona’s Russian department. Previously he worked at the NRPA. Bøhmer is Bellona’s expert on radioactive waste, nuclear accidents and nuclear power. He holds a M.Sc. from the University of Oslo and a Master’s degree in nuclear physics