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

July 2, 2019 Accidents and incidents, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Russian Navy

Fire aboard nuclear powered Russian submersible kills at least 14

A fire aboard a Russian deep-sea research vessel has killed at least 14 personnel, including high-ranking naval officers, all of whom were […]

June 24, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia

Environmentalists concerned about where Andreyeva Bay spent nuclear fuel is being sent

Representatives from Rosatom, Russia’s nuclear corporation, have sought to sooth environmentalist over concerns that removing tons of […]

June 19, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia

Visitors are flocking to Chernobyl, but is it safe, or right?

As Scandinavians head off for vacations next month, their preferred destinations are unlikely to include spots so contaminated by […]

June 17, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia

Russia’s Novovoronezh nuclear plant starts up a new reactor

The second unit of the Novovoronezh II nuclear power plant south of Moscow has gone into pilot commercial operation, Rosenergoatom, […]

June 5, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia

HBO’s Chernobyl offers a chilling environmental parable

In one of the more haunting scenes of the HBO miniseries Chernobyl, whose fifth and final episode was aired on Monday, a group of Soviet […]

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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