Bellona Archive
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10.03.2010
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Battle to revise Russia radioactive waste bill continues as enviro groups are shut out of the dialogue
NEW YORK – Powerful environmental groups in Russia have stepped forward to say they have been shut out of a process to revise a new bill on radioactive waste management in Russia, saying their suggestions to improve the bill have been ignored, representatives of Greenpece Russia and Ecodefence told Bellona Web Tuesday.
rosatom.ru
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05.01.2010
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Russia joint venture releases possibly crackpot plan to build small lead cooled fast reactors for remote areas
NEW YORK – A new joint venture between Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom and En+, another Russian energy giant and the majority shareholder of RUSAL, the world's largest aluminium and alumina producer is aiming to commercialise small lead cooled reactors, an industry publication reported.
wikimedia commons
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09.06.2009
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Russia secures America’s Exelon as its fourth customer in growing number of commercial uranium deals
US utility Exelon Corp, which owns America’s largest fleet of nuclear reactors, signed a long-term uranium supply contract with Russian nuclear fuel exporter Tekhsnabexport (Tenex) Exelon said in a statement on Wednesday, making it the fourth American energy company to order nuclear fuel from Moscow under purely commercial circumstances.
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21.05.2008
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Sevmash rolling out more spent nuke fuel containers under a US contract
The Sevmash construction plant has signed a contract for production of 20 containers for storage of spent nuclear fuel, the Barents Observer reported,
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15.07.2007
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Authorities use scare tactics on opponents of nuclear power
On July 14th 10 citizens of the Irkutsk District were arrested by the local police (militsiya) in an Angarsk suburb not very far from the Angarsky Electrolysis Chemical Plant (AECP).
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29.03.2007
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Sevmash to build storage containers for Leningrad NPP’s spent nuclear fuel
The Rosenergoatom Concern and the Federal State Unitary Enterprise-Production Plant Sevmash in Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk region, signed an agreement regarding the development of a specialized container for storing spent nuclear fuel from the Leningrad NPP.
- Russian nuclear fuel cycle