Kola NPP

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.

This year's deadline for a license to operate three power units of the Kola nuclear power plant. The head of administration of KNPP says a new license documents already be filed with Rostekhnadzor. At first glance it may seem that everything is right: as an old license ends, the request is for a new one is made. But it is not as easy

In this article, I want to comment on the article "Conflicting results of the seminar" Problems of the SER in
the licensing and design, "which was published on the website www.nord-news.ru, because I was one of the
organizers of this workshop. The first thing that catches your eye in this article, is that the authors of this paper was asked to comment on the outcome of this workshop is only one of its members, Zhavoronkin S.N., but the

On 3rd of March a seminar was held in Murmansk. It was dedicated to an interaction between society and environmental NGOs, governments, customers and designers in matters of state
and public environmental impact assessments. This seminar was organized by the NGO network "Decommission", so the focus of discussion was "nuclear" projects, but discussion of
the reports showed that the same systemic problems arise during the discussion and expert evaluation of any industrial project. These problems are most often created artificially in order
to "sneak" through hearings unrefined projects or projects

- The incident at Kola nuclear power plant yesterday clearly shows the need of closing the reactors, and start making plans for decommissioning, says Yuri Ivanov in “Kola Environmental Centre”.

29th of September 1957 a tank with radioactive waste at the Mayak plant in Russia exploded. On the day 52 years after the accident representatives of the Decomatom-project participated in a memorial in the village of Muslyumovo.

On 4th of July at the information center of Kola nuclear plant, a round table with participants from the environmental organization GAIA, leaders of the Kola nuclear plant trade union and administrative officer of Murmansk public union for nuclear energy safety, took place. The main topic of the round table was the ‘Concept of decommissioning of old nuclear reactors’ which was prepared and presented by the public environmental organizations within the international DecomAtom project.

The Rosatom magazin "Safety of Environment" number 1/2008 features an article about the concept for a decommissioning plan made by Decommission network NGOs. In Rosatom Public Council 28th February authors of the concept presented the suggestions made by the non-governmental organizations regarding the concept of decommissioning of nuclear power units that have passed their operating lifetimes.

On May 14th, representatives of Gaia, Green World and Naturvernforbundet met with deputy governor of Murmansk oblast, Sergey Sobbotin, to present the concept of decommission plan that the NGOs have written together.