Russia eyes raising thousands of radioactive relics from watery Arctic graves
byIt should have been an easy job. Instead, towing a rust-bucket nuclear submarine known as the k-159 to scrapping ended in a headache Russia…
Nuclear
Kremlin Conducts Massive Arctic Nuclear War Games
byFour ballistic missiles were launched by Russian forces on Wednesday in one of the largest Russian nuclear drills since in the post-Soviet era. All…
US Congress Briefed on Russian Arctic Nuclear Cleanup
byNorwegian based Bellona briefs members of the US congress about efforts to clean up Russian nuclear waste in the Arctic US congressional staff in…
Nuclear submarine fire in Russia Far East again raises questions surrounding safe dismantlement
byA decommissioned Russian nuclear submarine moored off a naval base on the Kamchatka peninsula caught fire on Friday, but there was no radioactive contamination…
Putin’s Sabre Rattling Threatens Russia’s Neighbors, the World, and Russia Itself
byVladimir Putin’s increasingly belligerent stance and his announcement Wednesday that Moscow will put in place 40 additional nuclear weapons not only represents a threat…
Finnish Parliament Stakes Energy Future on Controversial Russian Nuclear Plant
byFinnish lawmakers voted in 115-74 in favour of granting a permit to the Finnish energy consortium, Fennovoima, to build a controversial nuclear power plant…
Finnish Parliamentary Committee Approves Russian Nuclear Plant
byYLE reports that the Finnish parliament has given the green light for the construction of a Russian designed nuclear plant in Pyhäjoki in northern…
A Timeline of Renewed Finlandization
byTracking Finnish foreign policy as it ricochets wildly between East and West has become a challenge for even the most seasoned observers of Finnish…