Russian soldiers to collect waste at nuclear test site on Novaya Zemlya island
94 soldiers from the 12th Main Directorate fly to Novaya Zemlya to collect scrap metal at the nuclear weapons test
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Lapland reindeer herders still carrying radiation from Cold War nuclear tests
The Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority is measuring radiation among people in Ivalo, northern Lapland this week. Measurements have been
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Another tiny measurement of radioactive iodine in Norway
Norwegian Radiation Protection Authorities (NRPA) without any suspected source. The very small amount of radioactive iodine was measured in week
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Traces of radioactive Iodine detected over Europe
Finland and France went public with information, but Norwegian authorities argue the measurements had no news value. A trace of
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Blog: Greenland ice holds Cold War peril
It sounds like something from a science-fiction novel or a disaster movie. A hidden city under ice, housing 200 people,
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Sweden to have 100 percent renewable energy by 2040
A cross-party energy deal has been reached between Sweden’s government and three opposition parties. Sweden will have 100 percent renewable
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Russia-Norway disagreements stop bay clean-up
Finnmark Governor insists installation of new navigation marks along Russia’s heavily militarized Kola Peninsula coast must be completed before allowing
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Will Sweden be able to produce enough energy in the future?
This last spring and summer Sweden’s energy companies announced that four of ten nuclear reactors could need to be decommissioned,
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Barents Russia gets new missile radars
Will be built east of the secret town of Olenogorsk-1 on the Kola Peninsula and outside Pechora in the Komi
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Fate of Fennovoima up to Russian brass says Finnish politician
Finland’s Green Party leader Ville Niinistö says he considers the Fennovoima nuclear power plant project to be completely ruled by
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Finland downplays Russian bid to build reactor
Prime Minister Juha Sipilä said that he sees Russia’s interest in building another reactor in Finland as purely business-minded. The
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North Pole nuclear cruises season started
Russia’s largest nuclear powered icebreaker is currently crushing the Arctic sea ice with 117 tourists on board. Powered with two
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Finland: TVO power consortium proposes shelving fourth Olkiluoto reactor
The board of the Finnish consortium of power companies Teollisuuden Voima (TVO) has proposed abandoning plans for construction of a
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Sunken Soviet submarines threaten massive radioactive contamination
While Russia’s naval yard in Severodvinsk is busy like never before in Post-Soviet times with construction of new submarines, two
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Arctic, Barents submarine patrols up 50 percent over last year
Many more nuclear powered submarines sail the Barents Sea and Arctic Oceans today than only a year ago. And more
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