Nuclear Russia

Russia currently operates 10 nuclear power plants with a total of 31 reactors producing 143 TWh of power that cover some 15 percent of the country’s electricity needs (about 3 percent in the energy balance). Half of the country’s reactors are considered high-risk by international experts. Eight of Russia’s 10 nuclear power plants are in the European part of Russia, East of the Ural. Two others are east of the Urals―one in Far Eastern Siberia. Typically, Russian nuclear power plants run either VVER type reactors (15) or graphite moderated RBMK reactors (11) of the fatally-flawed Chernobyl-type. Other reactor types include the EPR-6, and the BN-60 fast neutron reactor. Civilian nuclear power plants in Russia are owned and operated by the state-owned Rosenergoatom company. Of special concern are the RBMK’s that are still in service, and those reactors that receive extensions of their engineered life span―a dangerous, and often illegally performed, process to squeeze more time out of reactors that should be decommissioned.

ARTICLES
[ 02.09.2010 ]
Radwaste processing plant at Russian military shipyard catches fire
A fire broke out at the radioactive sorting plant at Polyarny shipyard on the Kola Peninsula on the morning of August 27th. The fire was extinguished several hours later. Reports indicate a rise in the background radiation on the plant’s premises and Russian are officials keeping a tight lid on information.
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aif.ru

[ 30.08.2010 ]
Comment: Putin and ecology
MOSCOW – On August 27, as the bitter controversy surrounding the clear-cutting of Moscow’s Khimki forest – the felling was started to make room for a new Moscow-St. Petersburg motorway – and environmentalists fighting to protect it had reached it peak, with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stepping in with an order to suspend the felling for “further analysis,” Prime Minister Vladimir Putin weighed in with a comment of his own. Bellona’s regular contributor Vladimir Slivyak offers a short review of the situation – and Putin's true ecological credentials.
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Atomflot

[ 18.08.2010 ]
Russian icebreakers escorting gas condensate ship to China, halving usual journey
NEW YORK – Two Russian nuclear-powered icebreakers will escort a tanker transporting gas condensate from Russia to China via the Arctic rather than through the Suez Canal in a trial run is whose goal is to cut the time it takes to ship oil and gas to countries in the Asia-Pacific region, World Nuclear News Reported.
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NEWS
[ 12.04.2010 ]
Russian and Norway to sign and present joint audit of nuclear safety programmes

Russian Accounts Chamber Chairman Sergei Stepashin and his Norwegian counterpart Auditor General Jørgen Kosmo will together sign a memorandum with analysis and conclusions on Norway-sponsored nuclear safety projects in the Russian Northwest, the Barents Observer reported.

[ 23.11.2009 ]
Turkey kills bid it accepted for Russia to build nuclear power plant over price gouging

Turkey will put a project to build the country's first nuclear power plant up for bid again after it cancelled a bid it already accepted from Russia's Atomstroieksport, Power Engineering International reported.

[ 21.10.2009 ]
Russia shoots for slightly less ambitious claim on world nuke fuel market

Russian state-controlled nuclear fuel supplier TVEL plans to control 25 percent of the world's nuclear fuel market by 2030, the company's vice president, Pyotr Lavrenyuk, said on Tuesday, according to RIA Novosti Russian news agency.

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BLOGS
Posted 02.02.2009 in Vladimir Slivyak's blog by Vladimir Slivyak

Global economic slump may lay bare nuclear safety and proliferation problems

Comments to the yearly report by the Russian industrial safety oversight agency Rostekhnadzor and ruminations on whether there is any logic to be found in the state nuclear corporation Rosatom’s actions.

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