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23.03.2009, 13:35
Several environmental organisations are protesting at what they call biggest ever delivery of radioactive waste to Russia. The load is being transported from Germany to Siberia for processing.
05.05.2010, 08:48
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A giant funnel is being built in the Gulf of Mexico to channel the oil spill from the seabed to surface. But since there is no guarantee it will work, Russian experts think Soviet history may offer a radical solution.
21.08.2010, 09:55
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The Russian-built nuclear power plant in Iran’s Bushehr is an economic project and has nothing to do with politics, analyst Sergey Pereslegin has told RT.
07.04.2009, 10:29
Twenty years ago on April 7, the Soviet nuclear submarine K-278 Komsomolets caught fire and sank in the Norwegian Sea.
01.06.2009, 20:40
On the last night of spring 2009, Russia stopped producing Plutonium-239, the fuel used in nuclear weapons. The only thing that can bring the plutonium reactors back to life is… cold weather.
22.05.2009, 08:51
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Britain could start seeing blackouts as early as 2016 if building new power capacity is not started immediately. But the government’s plans to build new atomic power stations are being thwarted by safety fears.
29.08.2009, 09:32
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Sixty years ago, the USSR tested its first atomic bomb. Now the proving ground stands as a reminder of the ambitious project that turned Russia into a major nuclear force.
14.04.2010, 10:32
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The US and Russia have sealed a deal on the sidelines of a nuclear security summit in Washington which would see both sides disposing of 68 metric tons of excess weapons-grade plutonium beginning in 2018.
08.05.2010, 13:09
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As countries around the world mark VE-Day, it seems that some of those who once fought side by side, have these days turned on each other.
13.08.2010, 15:49
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Russia says it will launch Iran's nuclear power plant in Bushehr next week.
Published: 06 April, 2009, 09:16
Russia has been reprocessing other countries' depleted uranium since the 1990s, but now that the first contracts are ending, there is a growing number of voices calling for an end to the practice.
