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09.02.2010
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Government report indicates Norway wants to ship radioactive waste to Russiain 'unacceptable' move
Radioactive waste from Norway’s Halden and Kjeller research reactors could be sent to Russia, according to a report ordered by the Norwegian government’s Ministry of Trade and Industry in what Bellona is calling an “unacceptable” move.
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08.02.2010
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Obama budget proposes federal funding infusion into US nuclear power
NEW YORK – The US nuclear industry got a big boost and big oil took a hit when US president Barack Obama submitted his federal budget proposal to Congress last week, making good on a promise to the nuclear industry in his State of the Union speech last month to include it in America’s efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
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04.02.2010
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Kola Nuclear Power Plant first hides, then downplays incident
An energy transformer exploded into bits and pieces at the Kola Nuclear Power Plant located on the Kola Peninsula, in Northwest Russia. The incident led to a 50% reduction of power output from two reactor units leaving onsite spent nuclear fuel storage without energy supply. The authorities at the plant neglected to report about the incident.
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03.02.2010
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Landmark EU decision to finance CCS
Tuesday, an overwhelming majority of Member States finally endorsed a European Commission Decision setting out the procedures and criteria for selecting the large-scale projects for CO2 capture and storage (CCS).
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02.02.2010
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Environmentalists urge Russian parliament to revise controversial bill on radioactive waste management
MURMANSK — Much to environmentalists’ dismay, the lower house of the Russian parliament voted in the last week of January to pass in the first hearing a controversial new bill on radioactive waste management — a document that ecologists fear will give the nuclear industry an unchecked licence to carry on with its dangerous waste disposal practices.
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29.01.2010
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World nations take first steps toward realising the Copenhagen Accord on first deadline
NEW YORK – In compliance with the Copenhagen Accord, President Obama has officially pledged the United States will reduce its emissions to 17 percent below 2005 levels over the next 10 years, but worried environmentalists point out that the pledge will be undeliverable if the United States Congress does not pass the climate legislation languishing before it.
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29.01.2010
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Radioactive dump still a toxic issue for Russia’s Angarsk
A public hearing in the Siberian city of Angarsk, the reluctant hometown of a uranium enrichment enterprise, was another testament to the nuclear industry’s endless foot-dragging over unsafe practices of storing radioactive waste. City authorities rejected the plant’s proposal to leave its uranium tails storage facility on Angarsk’s territory, while legally taking it out of city limits. Angarsk is still waiting for its toxic inhabitant to provide more efficient solutions to handle the waste. Below is a comment by Andrei Ozharovsky.
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