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

August 16, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia

Radiation detected from Norway likely not from Russia’s mystery explosion

Norway’s nuclear safety authority is analyzing a small amount of radioactive iodine detected in the air over the country’s north in the […]

August 15, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia

Russian officials issue confusing evacuation orders from village near radiological explosion

Russian military officials have issued conflicting reports this week about whether residents in the area near a mysterious nuclear accident […]

August 12, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia

Russia says small nuclear reactor blew up in deadly Arctic accident

The international community is racing to understand a mysterious explosion that released radiation off the coast of northern Russia last […]

August 7, 2019 Arctic, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet

Russia to build two more nuclear icebreakers

Russia has said it will build two new nuclear icebreakers in a bid to make a rapidly melting trade route through the Arctic accessible to […]

August 6, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia

Russia’s floating nuclear plant to make its way across the Arctic

Russia is preparing to launch its audaciously conceived floating nuclear power plant, the Akademik Lomonosov, deploying it 6,000 kilometers […]

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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