Radioactivity Waste

Baltic Newsletter # 103

Russian Port of Ust-Luga on the Gulf of Finland will transship radioactive and nuclear waste shipped to Russia via the Baltic Sea. A political decision about it was taken by the Government of Russia in 2003 (Decree № 1491-r of 14 October 2003). Its actual implementation is starting now.

BALTIC NEWSLETTER OF THE GREEN WORLD, № 101

On May 29 in the center of St. Petersburg, on the corner of Nevsky Prospect and Malaia Sadovaia streets, a protest demonstration was held by environmental NGOs Bellona (St. Petersburg), Ecodefense (Moscow) and Green World (Sosnovy Bor – St. Petersburg).

The cold war legacy, consequences of nuclear power development without consideration of the environmental security, accidents at the facilities of nuclear fuel cycle, enormous amount of accumulated and new radioactive waste, unprecedented radioactive contamination are the most difficult for the solution environmental problems in Russia.

BALTIC NEWSLETTER OF THE GREEN WORLD, № 94

Spent Nuclear Fuel And Radioactive Waste In The North-west Russia. Problems And Possible Solutions” – this is the agenda of international seminar, which was organized in Murmansk 23-24 November.
The seminar was attended by the representatives of environmental community from European Russia, Norway, Russian nuclear science and business, also by Murmansk Oblast authorities.

Baltic Newsletter #89
On December 15, about 3 a.m. an explosion in the electrically heated furnace occurred. It was one of the furnaces belonging to ECOMET-S, a private company located on the territory of Leningrad NPP and specializing in the reprocessing of contaminated scrap metal by melting. The molten metal having the temperature of 1200°С was ejected from the furnace and hit three workers staying in the production unit.