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19/08/19
L’ARTICO MINACCIATO DA UNA CENTRALE NUCLEARE GALLEGGIANTE
L’Artico minacciato da una centrale nucleare galleggiante
Gli scettici la chiamano “Chernobyl galleggiante”, una centrale nucleare galleggiante per dare energia elettrica alle piattaforme petrolifere. Una grande minaccia per l’intero ecosistema artico.
Non bastava l’incidente nucleare
avvenuto la settimana scorsa in una base militare russa, a minacciare
l’Artico serviva anche una centrale nucleare galleggiante. Si chiama Akademik Lomonosov, è un impianto nucleare galleggiante realizzato
dai russi. La centrale è composta da 2 reattori del tipo KLT-40, per
una potenza complessiva di 70 megawatt. Si tratta della seconda centrale
nucleare galleggiante costruita al mondo, dopo l’impianto americano
Sturgis.
La nave è salpata dal cantiere navale di San Pietroburgo
nel 2018, è stata rimorchiata fino a Murmansk, porto di mare sulla baia
di Kola a 32 km dal Mare di Barents, dove i due reattori sono stati
caricati con materiale radioattivo.
La centrale nucleare galleggiante è poi stata trainata per 5mila chilometri fino all’Artico,
dove entrerà in servizio al largo della costa di Chukotka, nella
Siberia orientale, per fornire energia a una città portuale di 5mila
abitanti e alle piattaforme petrolifere che si trovano in zona.
Data: 15.08.2019
Fonte: www.lifegate.it
08/11/18
OFFICIALS CONDUCT RADIATION EMERGENCY DRILLS AT ANDREYEVA BAY
A container of old spent nuclear fuel rods weighing several tons falls
from a crane and, thanks to a defective weld, splits open, spilling a
stew of radioactivity onto a dock at Andreyeva Bay, one of Russia’s most
sensitive Cold War legacy sites located mere kilometers from the
Norwegian border.
Radiation sensors aboard the Rossita, the ship onto which
the container was being loaded, wail their alarm as contamination creeps
across the dock and into the waters below. Two technicians are injured
and need immediate medical attention.
The culprit for the accident: an avalanche of rocks sloughing off a
nearby cliff, sending a wave crashing into the dock, causing the crane’s
gears to spin out while they wrestle with their swaying nuclear load.
It’s the sort of thing that could happen at Andreyeva Bay, where technicians are now cleaning up 22,000 spent nuclear submarine fuel rods that have accrued there since the early 1960s.
But fortunately it didn’t. It was all part of a drill, which was
conducted earlier this month while officials from Rosatom, Russia’s
state nuclear corporation, and Norwegian Radiation Safety Authority
looked on.
And according to both sides, the drill came off without a hitch.
Data: 30.10.2018
Fonte: www.bellona.com
29/11/17
ROSATOM DRAFTS LAW GIVING ITSELF CONTROL OF THE RUSSIAN ARCTIC
Rosatom drafts law giving itself control of the Russian Arctic
Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom has crafted a bill that
would give it total control over infrastructure and navigation along the
Northern Sea Route, signaling a major consolidation of the country’s
Arctic policy.
Though the necessity of having Rosatom manage nearly all state
affairs related to the Arctic is unclear, its new role will likely
broaden nuclear power usage along remote passages of the 6,000-kilometer
sea corridor and defray budgetary push back against some of Moscow’s
more extravagant atomic dreams.
The bill, which was published on the Russian government’s official
legislation portal, lays out in bold strokes a plan under which Rosatom
would have the authority to oversee and regulate shipping through the
Russian Arctic, as well as designate, build and manage ports along the
way.
The legislation would also give Rosatom the say-so over which ships
are allowed to sail through the corridor, as well as oversee reporting
on weather and ice conditions, cooperate in organizing rescue
operations, and designate the circumstances under which icebreakers must
be used for convoys.
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Data: 22.11.2017
Fonte: www.bellona.org
10/11/17
ROSATOM PREPS TO UNLOAD FUEL RODS FROM LEPSE SERVICE VESSEL
Rosatom preps to unload fuel rods from Lepse service vessel
Officials in Russia have set a beginning date for removing hundreds of
spent nuclear fuel assemblies from the bowels of the Lepse nuclear
service ship, one of the country’s most radioactively contaminated Cold
War legacy vessels
Officials in Russia have set a beginning date for removing hundreds of spent nuclear fuel assemblies from the bowels of the Lepse nuclear service ship, one of the country’s most radioactively contaminated Cold War legacy vessels.
Anatoly Zakharchev, who is overseeing the fuel removal process for
state nuclear corporation Rosatom, said in a recent interview that the
complicated process of extracting the spent fuel from the ship would
begin in the last quarter of 2018.
The fuel removal process – including the extraction of several
damaged assemblies – is one of the most technically demanding nuclear
legacy cleanup operations Russia has ever undertaken. When it’s complete
in 2020, it will be a decades-long culmination of technical preparation
and represent the coordination of millions of dollars in international
funding during often trying political circumstances.
Data: 08.11.2017
Fonte: www.bellona.org
29/03/16
RUSSIA’S KOLA NUCLEAR PLANT TO RUN ITS OLDEST REACTOR EVEN LONGER
Russia’s Kola Nuclear Plant to run its oldest reactor even longer
MURMANSK – Despite the fact that the Kola nuclear power plant
produces 500 megawatts of unneeded energy per year, Russia’s nuclear
utility Rosenergoatom is holding a tender for upgrades to the station’s
No 1 reactor — with the aim of running it for 60 years.
According to the Goczakupok,
the state’s official site for open tenders, Rosenergoatom is billing
the work for nearly 700 million rubles ($10.3 million) and the upgrades
are to take place between June 1, 2016 and October 1, 2018. Candidates
for the project, says the site, are being accepted until April 4 and the
winner will be announced by May 4.
Vasily Omelchuk, the plant’s director, says that the foreseeable
future holds no possibilities for other energy development, be it in the
form of new hydroelectric stations, renewable sources or even the
construction of a second Kola nuclear power plant.
“Therefore the engineered lifespans of reactors No 1 and 2 were
extended by 15 years to 2018 and 2019,” said Omelchuk. “The station has
worked out an investment plan to extend the lifespan of it reactors
generally to 60 years, or for 15 years a piece,” he told an ecological
gathering of the Murmansk Regional Government and the Public Council on
Atomic Energy.
The station’s reactor No 1 this year reached 43 years old. All four of
the plants reactors are working on extended engineering lifespans, and
each was initially designed expected to run for 30 years.
Data: 27.03.2016
Fonte: www.bellona.org
13/03/14
IL PARLAMENTO EUROPEO HA INVITATO A CREARE UNA RISERVA NATURALE PROTETTA AL POLO NORD
Oggi l'Europarlamento ha approvato una risoluzione che invita alla creazione di un territorio naturale protetto intorno al Polo Nord. La risoluzione di fattp rispecchia le richieste della campagna sull'Artico di Greenpeace, appoggiata già da più di 5 limioni di persone.
Data: 12.03.2014
Fonte: www.greenpeace.org/ru
Traduzione: S.F.
29/01/14
UN ALTRO PORTO NELL'ARTICO APERTO ALLE NAVI NUCLEARI
Il premier russo Dmitrij Medvedev ha firmato una disposizione che consente l'attracco a navi e altri mezzi naviganti trasportanti impianti energetici nucleari e fonti radioattive nel porto di Sabetta, nella penisola di Jamal.
Data: 27.01.2014
Fonte: www.bellona.ru
Traduzione: S.F.
SECONDO INCIDENTE IN UN MESE PER LA STATOIL SU UNA PIATTAFORMA NORVEGESE
La Statoil ha avuto due incidenti nell'ultimo mese su una piattaforma petrolifera, fatto che evidenzia come anche le compagnie più all'avangiardia dei paesi sviluppati non sono in grado di garantire la sicurezza lavorando nelle condizioni estreme dei mari del nord. Anche per questo la Statoil ha in progetto di trivellare nell'Artico russo, dove i controlli statali sono molto più blandi.
Data: 27.01.2014
Fonte: www.greenpeace.org/russia
Traduzione: S.F.
25/11/13
ALLA RUSSIA SON STATI DATI 10 GIORNI
Il Tribunale internazionale dell'ONU per il diritto marittimo ha emesso il verdetto preliminare per il caso Greenpeace. La Russia deve liberare l'Arctic Sunrisee tutti i membri del suo equipaggio entro inizio dicembre. Gli olandesi devono prima però versare un'ingente somma in qualità di cauzione. Il Ministero dell'Interno della Federazione Russa ha dichiarato che la decisione del Tribunale marittimo sarà esaminata.
Data: 22.11.2013
Fonte: www.gazeta.ru
24/10/13
SUNKEN NUCLEAR SUB ALLEGEDLY LEAKING RADIOATIVITY
The underwater film shows several large holes in the outer hull of the submarine laying on the seabed just northeast of the outlet of the Kola bay. This is one of the most important fishing grounds for cod in the Barents Sea. Given to the French-German TV channel ARTE, the film is the first made publicly available of K-159 after it sank on August 30, 2003.
A Moscow-based anonymous military informant provided the film to the reporters saying it was recorded during the Russian-British expedition to the sunken submarine back in 2007. The source further claims worrying increased levels of radioactivity are measured leaking from the hull of the wreaked submarine. Nothing is said about the levels of radioactivity
A Moscow-based anonymous military informant provided the film to the reporters saying it was recorded during the Russian-British expedition to the sunken submarine back in 2007. The source further claims worrying increased levels of radioactivity are measured leaking from the hull of the wreaked submarine. Nothing is said about the levels of radioactivity
Data: 22.10.2013
Fonte: www.barentsobserver.com
23/10/13
RUSSIA VS. GREENPEACE: THE BATTLE FOR THE ARCTIC
Russia vs. Greenpeace: the Battle for the Arctic
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Data: 23.10.2013
Fonte: www.highbrowmagazine.com
An environmental organization with a $350 million war chest, a giant
protest vessel, 28 activists and a rubber raft have succeeded in drawing
Russian President Vladimir V. Putin into a very public global dispute.
Attention is now focused on the Greenpeace activists who were arrested
last month by Coast Guard agents for trying to hang a protest banner on
an Arctic Ocean oil platform and whether they will languish in prison
for up to 15 years each on dubious piracy charges.
"They are obviously not pirates," Putin said in a speech to the
International Arctic Forum last month. Yet Russian authorities so far
seem to be throwing the book at the activists as international outrage
grows to secure their freedom. Protests have been held at Russian
consulates in about a half-dozen cities worldwide to release the
activists.
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Data: 23.10.2013
Fonte: www.highbrowmagazine.com
20/10/13
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