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

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 […]

June 3, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia

The Leningrad nuclear plant gets a clean review from the UN nuclear watchdog

The Leningrad Nuclear Power plant has strengthened operational safety in response to a review of one of its elderly reactor units conducted […]

May 22, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel

Russia begins removing spent nuclear fuel rods from its most radioactive ship

Officials at the Nerpa Shipyard near Murmansk said they have begun removing hundreds of spent nuclear assemblies, many of them damaged from […]

May 14, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia

Turkey’s official media has a bone to pick with Rosatom, but it might be more about money than safety

The Turkish nuclear regulator has repeatedly found cracks in the foundation of the Russian-built Akkuyu nuclear power plant, a report in a […]

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Private: Nils Bøhmer

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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