July 21, 2014 Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, Russian Navy Multi-million dollar nuclear clean up vessel finally sees action in Cold War legacy efforts The Rossita nuclear waste transportation ship – donated to Russia by Italy in 2011 – has finally completed a first…
June 27, 2014 Nuclear Russia Kola Nuclear Power Plant to give 15 more years of life to its oldest reactors MURMANSK – The director of the Kola Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) announced that the station’s aged two first reactors are…
June 25, 2014 Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Russia’s derelict nuke service ships undergoing dismantlement – some more quickly than others The nuclear service ship Volgodarsky will be entirely dismantled by the end of 2014 – possibly as early as the…
June 24, 2014 Accidents and incidents, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet This is only a test: Russia’s nuclear icebreaker fleet gets training on handling nuclear emergency information MURMANSK–Depressurization of the the first reactor compartment aboard the Sovietsky Soyuz nuclear icebreaker – moored in Murmansk harbor – resulted…
June 23, 2014 Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, Russian Navy UPDATE: Joint Russian-Norwegian inspection of sunken nuke sub scheduled to begin later this week Russia and Norway are scheduled on Tuesday to launch another joint expedition to determine the condition of a sunken nuclear…