Barentsobserver.com, 24.01.2012 - Russia’s first Graney-class submarine should have been on duty now, but today the Russian Defence Ministry announces a more than one year delay.

“The deadlines for the contract of the Russian Navy to bring the Yasen class (NATO name Graney class) submarine into service were not fulfilled, the deadline was delayed to 2012, Russia’s Deputy Defence Minister Aleksandr Sukhorukov told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.

Barentsobserver.com, 23.01.2012 - Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller eyes hungry buyers for Barents gas in world’s largest market.

Japan is already the largest buyer of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the world. The Fukhusima nuclear disaster last March makes another push away from electricity made by reactors. That is a fact the partners in the Barents Sea Shtokman-field want to benefit from.

Bellona, 18.01.2012 - Some three hundred nuclear time bombs are to cross the vast expanses of Russia within the next dozen years as Moscow embarks on its plan to send special-purpose trains with spent nuclear fuel (SNF) burnt at the country’s commercial reactors to a storage facility in Siberia.

Bikyamasr.com, 16.01.2012 - Russia’s government is planning to transport 22,000 tons of nuclear waste across the country along a route passing dozens of cities and towns, the spokesman of a local environmental group said on Monday.

Bellona, 29.12.2011 - A massive fire broke out during repairs to a Russian nuclear-powered submarine at a shipyard near the northern port of Murmansk, and from nine to possibly 19 people were delivered to a naval hospital with burns and injuries, but it remains unclear if the fire has been fully extinguished, sources have told Bellona.
Charles Digges, 29/12-2011

Rian.ru, 26.12.2011 - There are nearly 25,000 hazardous underwater objects containing solid radioactive waste in Russia, an emergencies ministry official said on Monday.

The ministry has compiled a register of so-called sea hazards, including underwater objects in the Baltic, Barents, White, Kara, and Black Seas as well as the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan, Oleg Kuznetsov, deputy head of special projects at the ministry’s rescue service, said.

The Economic Times, 22.12.2011 - Leaders of the rainbow of outfits that are organising protests against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project in south Tamil Nadu have vowed to continue their efforts to prevent commissioning of the Indo-Russian joint venture project, notwithstanding Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's announcement in Russia last week that the project would be on stream within a couple of weeks.

Bellona, 21.12.2011 - A special-purpose train carrying 80 tons of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) from Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) near Russia’s second largest city of St. Petersburg is soon to head out to a closed town in Siberia – a first shipment in an envisioned large-scale SNF relocation project that environmentalists fear will turn Siberia into a nuclear dumpsite and drastically increase overall safety risks, while helping none to address the exacerbating threat of nuclear waste accumulation