n preparing spent nuclear fuel (SNF) for purposes of transporting it to Zheleznogorsk (Krasnoyarsk region, Siberia, Russia),
Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant (LNPP) cut into two parts one of the 40,000 fuel assemblies. Because of a lack of preparation
for the difficult and dangerous operation, depressurization of the assembly and contamination of equipment took place.
This made it impossible for continuation of the work without risk of contamination of the environment and personnel.

On December, 23rd in territory of Rosatomflot passed the next session of Social Council on safe using of atomic energy on Murmansk area. At this session we had been presented the document «The road map on a decommissioning from exploitation of the Kola NPP» within the limits of the international project "Decommission". This document is working version 1.0. The purpose of its creation to involve in dialogue it is as much as possible people in working on by it.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow has refused to consider a complaint of the physicist and ecologist Oleg Bodrov to Russian State Nuclear Regulatory Body - Rostekhnadzor (RTN), in which the applicant challenged the legality and safety solutions to extend the operation of the fourth unit of the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant (LNPP) with its RBMK-1000 reactor. Issued on December 26, 2010, the RTN license extends the operational life of LNPP from 30 to 45 years! That is the world's oldest nuclear power plants with reactors of the Chernobyl series of plans to operate until 2026.

On Friday, October 7, between 17:00 and 18:00 an explosion occurred at the blast furnace ECOMET-S - a factory for melting radioactive scrap metal. This was reported by telephone to Green World by Natalya Malevannaya - head of the environmental management and security administration of Sosnovy Bor. A worker was burned by metal from the blast. He has second and third degree burns. He was taken to the Institute of Emergency Care named I.I Janelidze in St. Petersburg. There is hope that he will live.

Preliminary materials of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for a site for the disposal of radioactive waste have arrived at the administration of Sosnovy Bor, Leningrad Region http://www.mayak.sbor.net/.

According to these documents on the southern shores of the Gulf, 40 km west of the boundary of St. Petersburg, up to 250 000 cubic meters of radioactive waste (RW) will be buried.

October 24-26 in Chelyabinsk was an international legal seminar "Modernization of the nuclear regions: changes in the law to address environmental problems".

Renowned ecologist Murmansk, the Kola Environmental Center Vitaly Servetnik criticized plans to build another nuclear power plant, talks about alternative energy sources, thirty billion "garbage" of money and the privatization of nuclear ships.

This article was written about the troubled spot Andreeva Bay on the Kola Peninsula. What is now happening here. What happens to the spent fuel and radioactive waste that had accumulated during the "Cold War" military. The trip was organized September 20, 2011, the Public Council for Nuclear Safety of the Murmansk region. At this point in this area cleaned up. SNF will be exported to the plant "Mayak" for reprocessing and to Saida Guba deposit. In the future, in this place or any waste will not be.

PicsAccording to the Mass Media in France in the shop exploded in the furnace for utilization of low-level radioactive metal. Prior to that, the Internet appeared contradictory information. First reported about the explosion at the NPP in France, the non explosion at a factory for the production of MOX - fuel for NPP reactors. This article talks about the problems of informing the public atomic industrialists in emergency situations. In this article, you can learn why it is still in many countries nuclear power is a very secretive industry, and the reasons for secrecy in real time despite the fact that the "Cold War" ended.