Tag: Rosatom

  • Ironic Dependency: Russian Uranium and the US Energy Market

    Be careful who you condemn and ostracise.  They just might be supplying you with a special need.  While the United States security establishment deems Russia the devil incarnate helped along by aspiring, mischief-making China, that devil continues supplying the US energy market with enriched uranium. This dependency has irked the self-sufficiency patriots in Washington, especially […]

  • Bypassing Sanctions: Russia, Trade Routes and Outfoxing the West

    Invention is the mother of necessity, and Russia’s response to largely Western-imposed economic and trade sanctions has shown the extent of that inventiveness.  While enduring attritive punishment in its Ukraine campaign, the war remains sustainable for the Kremlin.  The domestic economy has not collapsed, despite apocalyptic predictions to the contrary.  In terms of exports, Russia […]

  • Three Injured in Ukrainian Attack on Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant

    Three Injured in Ukrainian Attack on Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant

    FILE PHOTO. ©  STRINGER / AFP Multiple explosive-laden Ukrainian drones targeted the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant on Sunday, hitting several parts of the facility, Russia’s nuclear energy agency Rosatom said in a statement. At least three employees were injured in the attack, the agency added. According to a Telegram post by the facility’s Russian management, […]

  • Nuclear Energy Everywhere Costs an Arm and a Leg

    It crackles like a Geiger counter in a uranium mine: in 2023, Emmanuel Macron announced plans for six additional EPR [European Pressurized Reactor] nuclear power plants. Hang on, no, perhaps fourteen in the long term. In reviving nuclear in the name of the struggle against global warming, the European Union has followed suit. Japan is […]

  • 20,000 Toxic Sites in Sagging Arctic Permafrost

    20,000 Toxic Sites in Sagging Arctic Permafrost

    “Massive Permafrost Thaw Documented in Canada, Portends Huge Carbon Release”, Bob Berwyn, February 28, 2017 (Credit: Wikimedia) New studies show the Arctic heating up 4-times the overall rate of global warming. This startling rate in one of the most sensitive environments in the world could trigger toxic disasters in up to 20,000 industrial contamination sites. […]

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