Funding cold war clean-up

Part of: Nuclear Russia

Vincent Basler

Since the end of the Cold War, an internationally-funded race has been on to help Russia secure and destroy its nuclear arsenal as envisioned by the START treaty as well as to help Moscow deal with the environmental consequences of 40 years of preparation for nuclear war. This section supplied background and articles on the ever more numerous programmes that have been set up bi-laterally and mulit-laterally with Russia to achieve these goals.

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Murmansk Duma

[ 30.11.2010 ]
Russia, Norway audit radwaste cleanup spending in Murmansk
Representatives from Russian and Norwegian state auditing authorities have completed a joint inspection of expenses made using funds that Russia’s northern neighbour earmarked to clean up the consequences of radioactive contamination at various sites of Murmansk Region.
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Bellona

[ 20.04.2010 ]
Are Murmansk’s nuclear hazards getting the short shrift on federal money earmarked to clean them up?
MURMANSK – In an ironic twist, ecologists and anti-nuclear activists in this Northwest region of Russia ran into serious difficulties while preparing for the opening today of a forum hosted in St. Petersburg by Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom entitled “Atomic Energy, the Public and Safety.”
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bv.com

[ 22.07.2007 ]
US to convert more weapons plutonium than originally planned
NEW YORK-The Bush administration plans to convert more weapons-grade plutonium into commercial reactor fuel than previously planned under the 2000 Plutonium Disposition Agreement with Russia, said a senior Department of Energy (DOE) official.
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NEWS
[ 02.10.2007 ]
G8 Global Partnership meetings in Murmansk

Murmansk region hosted several meetings on nuclear and radiation safety last week.

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[ 16.02.2006 ]
Norway to allocate 110m crowns for Russian radiation security

The Norwegian government plans to allocate 110 million Norwegian crowns ($16m) for the implementation of nuclear and radiation security programs in Russia in 2006.

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[ 06.02.2006 ]
Norway stops investing in companies that produce nuclear weapons

In January 2006, Norway announced last month that it has stopped investing, via its state pension fund, in seven companies which it says are involved in the production of nuclear weapons as those activities “violate fundamental humanitarian principles,” the BBC reported.

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