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

January 15, 2020 Arctic, Industrial Pollution, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Renewable energy, Russian human rights issues, Transport

What Bellona Russia accomplished in 2019

To Bellona’s Russian office, 2019 was a year of waste – household waste, hazardous waste and radioactive waste. Nearly all of the […]

January 6, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia

In change of plan, remote Arctic nuclear plant gets lifespan extension

Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, has prolonged the lifespan of a reactor it has long said it will shut down, pointing to a […]

January 2, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia

One of Russia’s oldest nuclear reactors set to run until 2034

The second reactor unit at the Kola Nuclear Power plant near Murmansk has received the nod from Russian regulators to operate until 2034, […]

December 20, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia

Russia’s floating nuclear plant plugs in and produces power at remote port

Russia’s controversial floating nuclear power station has begun supplying electricity to a remote port in Siberia, despite widespread […]

December 17, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia

Bellona works to shed light on Rosatom’s depleted uranium imports

In recent weeks there has been a spike of interest surrounding the import into Russia of depleted uranium, a radioactive substance regarded […]

Get in touch with our expert in this field

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