There are major problems associated with nuclear power. The need for secure storage of radioactive waste is not solved and there is the continuing risk of radioactive contamination and accidents. Norges Naturvernforbund has been working against the nuclear industry in Russia since the early 1990s and also support struggle against new nuclear power plants in Belarus and Ukraine.
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News & Articles
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03.11.2009:
Real cost of nuclear energy in Belarus
A new report showing real costs of the planned nuclear power plant in Belarus shows that energy efficiency and renewable energy is a far more economic attractive alternative than new nuclear power.
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06.10.2009:
Memorial Day in Muslyumovo
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.
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24.09.2009:
Environmentalists handed to Russian president 36,000 signatures against construction of a nuclear power plant
Today, over 36,000 signatures of Russian citizens under the petition protesting construction of nuclear power plant in Nizhny Novgorod region were handed to the Russian President’ Administration. The signatures were collected among the inhabitants of the 30km zone around the proposed construction site, in Murom town of Vladimir region and Navashino town of Nizhny Novgorod region. Prior to handing the signatures to the President Administration, the environmentalists presented them to the media at the Independent Press-Center in Moscow. The press-conference speakers included Vladimir Slivyak, co-chairman of Ecodefense, Vasily Vakhlyaev, member of the Murom City Council, professor Alexey Yablokov of the Russian Academy of Science, and Sergey Ovchinnikov, a farmer form Nizhny Novgorod Region.
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04.11.2008:
Huge interest for decommission hearing
More than 50 participants from nuclear industry, authorities, trade unions and environmentalists met in the nuclear city Sosnovy Bor to discuss closure and dismantling of old nuclear power plants.
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17.06.2008:
Norges Naturvernforbund at anti-nuclear workshop
Norges Naturvernforbund co-organized a successful anti-nuclear workshop in Lithuania’s capital Vilnius last weekend. At the seminar NGO representatives from Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Scandinavia discussed plans for building new nuclear power plants in the region. The NGOs agreed to cooperate and to share information about their respective countries’ plans to build new nuclear power plants and to make a common strategy to fight this.
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10.06.2008:
Russian authority for radiation protection and nuclear security embraces decommission plan
In a letter from Rostechnadzor to Naturvernforbundet’s partner organization Green World, the Russian authority for radiation protection and nuclear security speaks very positively about the concept of a decommission plan for old nuclear power reactors, which was published earlier this year by Norges Naturvernforbund and Russian partner organizations.
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19.05.2008:
Nuclear plan to deputy governor in Murmansk
Naturvernforbundet and Russian partners Gaia and Green World met with deputy governor of Murmansk oblast, Sergey Sobbotin, to present the concept of decommission plan that the NGOs have written together.
