Join us on December 2 at 16:00 (GMT+2) for Zoom webinar featuring the Bellona Environmental Transparency Center’s nuclear advisor Alexander Nikitin, who will present the “Eliminating Nuclear Legacy in Russia: Problems and Prospects in the Context of the Military Conflict (2022-2025)” report. It summarizes publicly available information about the Soviet nuclear legacy – a set of problems related to accumulated radioactive waste, spent nuclear fuel, shut down and decommissioned nuclear energy facilities, as well as radioactively contaminated territories and water bodies.

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For almost thirty years of work in Russia, Bellona has implemented its nuclear project, the main strategic goal of which was to facilitate and directly participate in organizing the elimination of the nuclear legacy in Russia. Experts from the organization took part in activities of the Russian state corporation Rosatom and in discussions on the development and outcomes of federal target programs for decommissioning nuclear and radiation-hazardous facilities.

International programs and active participation of the independent expert community long remained key factors in addressing the nuclear legacy. After the start of the war in Ukraine, international assistance ceased, Bellona closed Russian offices and then was recognized as an undesirable organization by the Russian state.

During the presentation, a Bellona nuclear expert will assess the activities and results of the federal programm for nuclear and radiation safety on the eve of and throughout the Russian-Ukrainian war from 2021 to 2024. He will also analyze and evaluate the situation with the Arctic nuclear legacy in 2024–2025, as well as provide a forecast for further prospects for the elimination of the Russian nuclear legacy.

The new Bellona report will be of interest to scientists, nuclear industry professionals, NGO employees, journalists, and officials working on, researching, and regularly covering issues of nuclear and radiation safety.