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

May 26, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia

Rosatom announces 100 coronavirus cases at Belarus nuclear plant

About 100 people at the construction site of a controversial nuclear power plant in Belarus have become infected with the coronavirus, the […]

May 25, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia

Russia commissions its floating nuclear plant

Russia’s controversial floating nuclear power plant, the Akademik Lomonosov, has been fully commissioned at a port in Siberia’s Far […]

May 19, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia

Rosatom eases employee coronavirus restrictions

Alexei Likhachev, head of Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, has announced a step-down of the company’s precautions against […]

May 15, 2020 Nuclear issues

Faked-data scandal might jeopardize safety at unknown number of nuclear power plants

An investigation at Norway’s now-closed Halden research reactor reveals that results from a number of nuclear fuel experiments were […]

May 12, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia

Russia plans to raise radioactive wrecks in the Arctic

By 2030, the Russian government will raise seven pieces of radioactive debris – including two nuclear submarines – from the bottom of […]

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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