Norway, Sweden financed upgrades for ship linked to mysterious Russia blast
The two Scandinavian countries paid for installing communications and positioning systems on board the Serebryanka as well as physical protection
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Nuclear waste company plans major investment at disposal site in southwest Finland
Nuclear waste firm Posiva is to spend some 500 million euros on a production facility for spent fuel handling at
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Work begins to remove nuclear waste from old Russian ship in Murmansk
The compartment with hundreds of partly damaged spent fuel elements is taken into a shelter to minimize the risk in
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Nuclear icebreaker operations should be moved away from Murmansk, safety expert says
Rosatomflot’s service base is not sized for all the planned new nuclear-powered icebreakers, says Andrey Zolotkov, who previously worked as
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Snow crabs invading Russia’s Arctic nuclear waste dump
Researchers find a huge influx of snow crabs in areas with dumped radioactive waste in the Kara Sea, in Arctic
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Russia offers to help Norway deal with its radioactive waste
After 25 years of economic aid from Norway to secure nuclear and radioactive waste on the Kola Peninsula in northwestern
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Rising nuclear activity in Arctic Europe prompts Norway to update disaster plans
“Norwegian authorities are again considering the use of nuclear weapons against Norway or close to Norway as a not unthinkable
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What’s the situation at Russia’s nuclear fuel dump in Andreeva Bay?
There is growing concern in nearby Norway about cooperation over the cleanup of Andreeva Bay, in the Barents Sea. Three
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Russia halts nuclear waste transport during World Cup
A load of containers with spent nuclear fuel from Andreeva Bay on the Kola Peninsula (Northwestern Russia) will have to
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Russia’s Arctic nuclear dump could become promising fishing area
Thousands of containers with radioactive waste were dumped in the Kara Sea during Soviet times. Now, Russia’s Federal Agency for
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Russia: Decades-long nuclear accident cleanup to enter critical phase in 2023
Donor countries agree to fund an additional study on how to extract the damaged spent nuclear fuel from Tank 3A
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Arctic’s most dangerous Cold War legacy soon to be removed
Workers are about to complete the handling infrastructure for partly damaged spent nuclear fuel at Russia’s Andreeva Bay. About 22,000
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Arctic cooperation helps avoid ‘floating Chernobyl’
“Lepse” is a shining example of how Europe and Russia work together on solving an urgent nuclear safety problem. Packed
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