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

April 25, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia

Reactors on Russia’s floating nuclear plant reach full capacity

The reactors aboard the Akademik Lomonosov, Russia’s floating nuclear power plant, have been brought to 100 percent capacity and is ready […]

April 12, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia

Questionable Russian-owned company caught up in Ukrainian nuclear reactor deal

As Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko, faces a run off in the country’s elections, he has issued a decree to his cabinet to act […]

April 10, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia

Norway and Russia to visit sunken Komsomolets sub three decades after it sank

This summer, Norwegian and Russian scientists will plumb the depths of one of the Cold War’s most enduring legends – the Komsomolets […]

March 20, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia

Hungary says it’s in no hurry to build Russian reactor

Hungary has announced it has no target date to submit its application for a construction permit for new reactors at the Paks nuclear power […]

March 12, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia

Moscow not building as many reactors abroad as it claims, says new report

A recent report by a Moscow-based environmental watchdog has cast into doubt claims by Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, that […]

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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