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28.07.2010
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Environmental camp against clear cutting of Moscow forest disbanded by unknown masked youths
MOSCOW – In another violent attempt to deter environmentalists from opposing the deforestation in the Moscow region to build a toll highway between Moscow and St. Petersburg, a group of environmentalists and two journalists camping in the capital’s Khimki forest was attacked and beaten on Friday by a gang of several dozen people wearing white masks, activists report.
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27.07.2010
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UPDATE: Russia’s Kola NPP still struggling after recent shutdowns and a slump in energy demand, but authorities remain unperturbed
MOSCOW – Russia’s Kola Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) is still not out of the woods as engineers failed to re-launch Reactor Unit 3 after thunderstorms caused emergency shutdowns at the site in early July. It is also struggling against a record low demand for energy in the region, but local industry leaders are staunchly defending the aging plant, looking to make it tax-exempt and pushing for construction of new reactors.
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26.07.2010
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Fire at the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant shuts down No 1 reactor for two days
MOSCOW – MOSCOW – As the result of a fire at an outdoor switchgear at the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant north of Moscow on July 23, the plant’s Reactor Block 1 was shut down. Two days later, the No. 1 unit was re-plugged into the grid.
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26.07.2010
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Twenty-five years on, Chernobyl still haunts affected areas as birth rates continue to dwindle
KIEV – Ukrainian medical researchers have found the depressingly high male infertility rates in this former USSR republic can be directly linked to the lingering effects of the 1986 disaster at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The same is likely true for the populations of other countries affected by the catastrophe – primarily, the neighbouring nations of Russia and Belarus – as well as those who helped in the immediate clean-up efforts and suffered from high radiation exposure levels as a result.
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23.07.2010
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Bellona: Statoil’s decision to resume production at unstable well is irresponsible
In what Bellona believes was an extremely irresponsible move, the Norwegian oil and gas giant Statoil has resumed production at Gullfaks C – a platform it shut down two months ago when pressure started to rise dangerously high in one of the wells. Statoil is moving forward despite lingering safety concerns and with no regard for the request for information filed by Bellona.
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23.07.2010
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Old safety concerns clamour for attention as bad weather causes emergency shutdowns at Russia’s Kola NPP
Storm-induced breakdowns in power transmission lines that resulted in emergency shutdowns at Kola Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in early July serve to underscore that continuing to run the reactors – two of which have long exhausted their operational life spans, while the other two will do so soon – is nothing short of a dangerous gamble, putting both population health and ecological safety at risk, environmentalists warn.
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13.07.2010
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Bonn conference wraps up another bid for global climate agreement
June 11, 2010 saw the conclusion of yet another round of global climate talks – this time, in the German city of Bonn. Sent to the conference by 184 member states of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the 1,669 negotiators continued their attempts to agree on further ways to try to save the planet.
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