Section: Nuclear
Russia deploys six nuclear warheads in Crimea
The Ukrainian president`s envoy to the Crimean Tatar people and Crimean Tatar leader, Ukrainian MP Mustafa Dzhemilev has said in an interview with UATV that Russia deployed six nuclear warheads in Crimea, according to LIGA.net. ”Crimea was turned into a military base … We even have information that there are now six nuclear warheads,” he...
Ukrainian nuclear power plant operator confident of world-class fuel storage facility
President of Energoatom, Ukrainian nuclear power plant operator, Yury Nedashkovsky has confirmed during his 10-day visit to the U.S. the progress in Holtec International`s preparations to build a Central Spent Fuel Storage Facility (CSFSF) at the site of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, according to World Nuclear News. The CSFSF will...
Ukrainian operator of nuclear power plants boosts revenue from electricity sales by 21% in four months
State-run Energoatom, the operator of Ukrainian-based nuclear power plants, boosted revenue from electricity sales by 21% in January-April 2017 year-over-year (y-o-y), to UAH 16.835 billion, or US$636 million, according to the company`s report. Payments of the wholesale electricity market for energy supplied by Energoatom in the four months of...
North Korea: New rocket can carry nuclear warhead
North Korea has announced that Sunday`s missile launch tested a new type of rocket capable of carrying a ”large-scale heavy nuclear warhead.” The test led to an international outcry and a call for harsher sanctions, according to Deutsche Welle. Sunday`s launch was a ”newly-developed mid/long-range strategic ballistic rocket, Hwasong-12,” North...
Anniversary of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant Disaster in Ukraine
On the 26th of April 1986 near the Ukrainian town Prypyat exploded the Reactor No. 4 at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant. That was one of the worst nuclear accident to have ever occurred on the Earth after which 350,000 residents of Ukraine that was a part of the former USSR were evacuated, and was created the 30-kilometer Exclusion Zone. The...
AP: U.S. hit IS with largest non-nuclear bomb ever used
U.S. forces in Afghanistan on Thursday struck an Islamic State tunnel complex in eastern Afghanistan with ”the mother of all bombs,” the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the U.S. military, Pentagon officials said, according to the Associated Press. The bomb, known officially as a GBU-43B, or massive ordnance air blast weapon,...
Synchronized power grids of EU, Ukraine to contribute to Ukrainian exports – Ukraine`s national nuclear energy generating company
President of Ukraine`s national nuclear energy generating company Energoatom Yuriy Nedashkovsky says that full synchronization of the Ukrainian power grids with the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) will increase the capacity of Ukrainian power exports to the EU, up to 4 GW, according to Energoatom`s...
Toshiba to declare nuclear service company Westinghouse bankrupt
Japanese Toshiba`s subsidiary company Toshiba Westinghouse Electric, the American-Japanese company servicing nuclear power plants, will be declared bankrupt due to losses reaching $7 billion with another $2 billion to be lost due to the bankruptcy procedure, according to Reuters. Toshiba plans to file for Westinghouse Electric`s bankruptcy on...
U.S., Britain, France, others skip nuclear weapons ban treaty talks
Almost 40 countries, including the United States, Britain, and France, chose not to join talks on a nuclear weapons ban treaty at the United Nations Monday, Reuters reported. U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley told reporters the countries skipping the negotiations are instead committed to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, which entered into force in 1970...
Ukraine`s nuclear energy generating company Energoatom to launch power exports to Poland, Hungary in 2019
President of Ukraine`s national nuclear energy generating company Energoatom Yuriy Nedashkovsky has announced Energoatom`s plans to launch electricity exports to Poland and Hungary in 2019; the electricity will be generated by the second Khmelnitsky Nuclear Power Plant (KhNPP) unit, which is now under construction. ”I believe we`ll manage this...
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General Staff operational report August 22, 2023 on the Russian invasion of Ukraine Tuesday, August 22, 2023 - 18:55 (GMT)
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