March 10, 2011 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia COMMENT: Construction of Belarus NPP defies public opinion, neighboring countries and common sense MINSK – How will Belarus build it nuclear power plant (NPP)? The answers that were given at the Atomekspo-Belarus 2011…
March 7, 2011 Nuclear Russia COMMENT: Rosatom plans dangerous thermal capacity increases at Russia’s RBMK reactors of Chernobyl infamy MOSCOW – A new experiment to be conducted at Russian nuclear power plants employing RBMK-type reactors of Chernobyl notoriety is…
March 7, 2011 Accidents and incidents, Nuclear USA Small-scale US nuclear reactor blamed for spiking cancer rates, casting pall over Russia’s FNPP fetish AMSTERDAM – A small nuclear power plant operated the United States at Antarctica’s McMurdo Sound has been implicated in dozens…
March 4, 2011 Nuclear Agreements, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, Russian Navy New Italian nuclear waste ship expected in Murmansk as hopes for nuclear icebreaker fleet melt MURMANSK – Northwestern Russia is awaiting the arrival of the Rossita, a €70 million Italian designed ship designed to transport…
March 2, 2011 Nuclear Russia COMMENT: Rosatom’s foreign market strategy: Exporting nuclear risks for questionable profit MOSCOW – As the lofty, but helplessly overblown idea of a “nuclear renaissance” continues to deflate right before our eyes…
