Russia

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.

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

In St. Petersburg, on April 19-20, a "Dialogue" forum was held by the State Corporation "Rosatom". This event was positioned as a dialogue with public organisations. As we can see from our experience, most of the openness which always declares this SC is only the slogan and nothing more. Secrecy is a convenient screen of Rosatom from the public interest.

Nuclear lobby traditionally assures us that nuclear power is safe and cheap. In this case the main arguments that usually in opposition to this are: increased security risks of nuclear
power plants and environmental risks. However, the security risks and the environment - just the tip of the

Puma
The Danish ship "Puma" is on its way from Slovenia to Murmansk with spent nuclear fuel for reprocessing at the Mayak facility in the Urals. The DecomAtom network is protesting against such shipments to Mayak.

Press conference in Murmansk

Yesterday the DecomAtom network organized press conferences in St.Petersburg, Chelyabinsk and Murmansk, to protest against the planned transport of spent nuclear fuel from Germany to Russia.

DecomAtom’s Russian website was hacked today, apparently by some supporters of nuclear energy.

A Committee, established by the Norwegian Government, recommends that Norwegian nuclear waste is sent to the Mayak plant in Russia. This creates an image of the Urals and Siberia, as an international nuclear garbage dump.

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.

Oleg Bodrov and Gennady Shabarin from the DecomAtom network visited United States in August to learn from successful decommissioning projects.