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Sweden’s incoming government edging out nuclear power
Sweden may soon turn its back on nuclear power as the incoming Social Democrats and Green Party have announced a coalition agreement to phase out atomic power development, Swedish media have reported....
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New beginning deadline in Lepse’ dismantlement set for December, shipyard...
MURMANSK – Under a new schedule, the notorious Lepse nuclear service vessel will in late October finally be put into dry dock at the Nerpa Shipyard, and the hazardous process of dismantling it is to...
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Ecodefense, slammed tarred as a foreign agent for nuke plant protest, finds...
Ecodefense, the only Russian environmental group that has been listed by Russian Ministry of Justice as a “foreign agent” for its protests against the Baltic Nuclear Power Plant, found it has an odd...
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Kola nuclear plant gets go-ahead to run its No 4 reactor for a record...
MURMANSK – In a decision vexing to environmentalists, the Kola Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) received an engineering lifespan extension to operate its 30-year-old reactor No 4 for an additionally 25 years...
View ArticleFinnish demonstrators gather to block construction of Russian-funded nuclear...
An early morning protest of the of Fennovoima nuclear power plant’s construction the Hanhiviki nuclear reactor in Pyhäjoki, Finland – 34 percent of which is owned by Russian state nuclear corporation...
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As Russia starts studies for geologic nuclear waste repository, locals demand...
NO RAO, the Russian state’s national operator for dealing with radioactive waste, has announced it will build an underground research laboratory near Krasnoyarsk to determine the feasibility of...
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Silence greets questions posed by Bellona at public hearing on Kalinin...
MOSCOW – Nearly 30 questions posed to a roundtable discussion held Friday on boosting the engineered power capacity of the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant’s No 1 reactor by Bellona remained unanswered by...
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Russia announces yet newer delivery date for first floating nuclear power plant
The shipyard responsible for developing Russia’s ongoing fantasy of mass producing floating nuclear power plants said last week the first one would be delivered on schedule to nuclear power plant...
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Russia’s Far East no longer home to any spent nuclear fuel
VLADIVOSTOK – The last trainload laden with spent nuclear fuel from the Russian Naval Pacific Fleet’s decommissioned nuclear submarine left the Primorye Region in mid October, completing a decade-long...
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Murmansk‘s biggest floating radiological threat finally taken off water
MURMANSK – Russia’s most dangerous nuclear vessel, the Lepse, was yesterday finally put into dry dock at the Nerpa shipyard north of Murmansk, where it spent nuclear fuel laden hull will be cut into...
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Russian environmentalists demand further discussion of deep nuclear waste burial
KRASNOYARSK, Russia – Confusion about when or if public hearings would taking place erupted Thursday during a conference that included announcements of Russia’s plans to build a laboratory to...
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Finnish parliament approves Russian nuclear plant backing, tying it to...
Finland Friday approved the construction of a controversial Russian-backed nuclear power plant in Pyhäjoki in a plan that strengthens energy ties between Helsinki and Moscow while many western...
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Russian reactor power experiments, extended run times spooking environmentalists
Ecologists are getting more uncomfortable with the fact that not just Russia is tinkering around with the science of extending the usual 30-year operational life span of nuclear reactors while the vast...
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NRPA: Western sanctions will not affect Russia’s international nuclear safety...
The recent souring of Moscow’s relations with the West and the financial and economic sanctions imposed against Russia are not expected to affect the nuclear and radiation safety projects Russia is...
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Any type of nuclear reactor, regardless of its purpose, is subject to risks
Even though Norway has no reactors producing electricity, its work with research reactors presents the same risks and complications as to a standard atomic energy station – and the same culture of...
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Uranium production waste in Angarsk: Proposed eviction with no forwarding...
ANGARSK, Irkutsk Region, Russia—The Russian uranium enrichment enterprise Angarsk Electrolysis Chemical Combine (AECC) admitted at a public hearing in early December that radioactive waste containing...
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SevRAO Russian nuclear waste handler satisfied with its year-end results
MURMANSK – SevRAO, Northwest Russia’s state nuclear waste handling division, reported in its year end results that remediation efforts at Andreyeva Bay are on schedule, the Volodarsky nuclear service...
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As Russia and US scramble for Ukrainian nuke fuel market, someone needs to...
A tart quarrel between Moscow and Kiev over who will supply nuclear fuel to Ukraine’s Soviet-built nuclear power plants is raging behind the scenes of the larger geopolitical crisis brought by Vladimir...
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Belgium experimental reactor fundamentally unsafe based on Russian...
Belgium’s generation five experimental Myrrha accelerator-driven research reactor has hit significant cost overruns due to post-Fukushima safety requirements, the Belgian financial newspaper De Tijd...
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Russia discontinues cooperation with US to secure nuclear materials: Report
Russia has reportedly ended all cooperation with US Department of Defense personnel who have worked to protect the country’s nuclear facilities and stockpiles since shortly after the collapse of the...
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