Radioactivity Waste

Baltic Newsletter # 108

On 1 February, at 02:12 at night the Russian vessel Kapitan Kuroptev docked at the 40th slip of the port of St. Petersburg, delivering from France 650 tons of nuclear waste. After the transfer of the containers to the railway platforms, the dangerous freight was transported through St. Petersburg toward Siberia, to the closed city of Seversk near Tomsk.

The article in Finnish right wing newspaper Uusi Suomi, March 29, 2009 about Russian radioactive waste import from Germany. Oleg Bodrov - NGO Green World chairman declared "the state declares the area secret and thus the people in the city and the local government at left outside the decision making."

About 30 members of St. Petersburg’s ecological organizations protested on Thursday the transportation of nuclear waste from other countries to Russia.
“No to the Import of Nuclear Waste!” read the slogan held by a group of ecologists in front of Avtovo metro station — the area of the city through which trains transporting nuclear waste from Europe usually pass.

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.