Nuclear Russia

This section deals with all topics relative to Russia’s nuclear fuel cycle, from nuclear power plant construction, decommissioning, its nuclear military industrial complex, spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste storage issues and Russia’s nuclear endeavors relative to the health of Russia’s citizens and environment.

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Nuclear Russia

May 31, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia

In a drill, fake terrorists take over Arctic radioactive waste storage site

Russian officials have said they thwarted a terrorist attack at a facility storing old radioactive components from nuclear vessels located […]

May 24, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear issues in ex-soviet republics, Nuclear Russia

Chernobyl’s stray dogs are bound for new homes in the US

If every dog has its day, then for the dogs living in the shadow of Chernobyl’s exploded No. 4 reactor, that day has finally come.

May 23, 2018 Arctic, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia

Rosatom legislation to control the Arctic faces more pushback

In a legal blow, Russia’s accounts chamber, parliament’s independent financial oversight body, has challenged legislation that would […]

May 21, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia

Russia’s floating nuclear plant arrives in Murmansk

The Akademik Lomonsov, Russia’s floating nuclear power plant – dubbed the “nuclear Titanic” by some environmentalists – arrived in […]

May 10, 2018 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia

Ukraine prepares to handle its spent nuclear fuel independent of Moscow

Ukraine is preparing to reshuffle how it handles its spent nuclear fuel as the reprocessing contracts Kiev has with Moscow reach their end […]

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

Nuclear Russia

Nuclear Russia

In a drill, fake terrorists take over Arctic radioactive waste storage site

Chernobyl’s stray dogs are bound for new homes in the US

Rosatom legislation to control the Arctic faces more pushback

Russia’s floating nuclear plant arrives in Murmansk

Ukraine prepares to handle its spent nuclear fuel independent of Moscow

Get in touch with our expert in this field

Private: Nils Bøhmer

Questions of handling the legacy of radioactive contamination at the Mayak Production Association

Nornickel and the Kola Peninsula: Charting Ecological Progress without a Compass