Russian-Norwegian contract on nuclear safety in the Baltic Sea

 

Governor of Murmansk Oblast Dmitry Dmitiyenko and his Norwegian counterpart Finnmark County Governor Gunnar Kjønnøy last week signed a contract on removal of radioactive strontium batteries (RTGs) in lighthouses in the Baltic Sea.

This was Kjønnøys first meeting with the new Murmansk Oblast Governor, a press release from the Finnmark County Governor’s office reads.

According to the contract, 71 RTGs will be removed from lighthouses in the Gulf of Finland and the coast of Kaliningrad in the period 2009-2012. The RTGs will be replaced be replaced with solar panels or other energy sources. The project has a 55 million NOK price tag. Part of the sum will be granted by Finland through Norway.

Gunnar Kjønnøy for several years cooperated with Ex-governor Yury Yevdokimov on nuclear safety projects in Northern Russia. Since 2001 169 radioactive strontium batteries have been removed from light houses along the coast of the Kola Peninsula and in the White Sea area. Another project the two governors successfully led was infrastructure improvements at the nuclear waste storage facility in Andreeva Bay on the Kola Peninsula. Based on the successful cooperation in the Norwegian-Russian project, Yevdokimov and Kjønnøy were asked to be project leaders in a similar program in the Baltic Sea.

Source: Barents Observer.

Films of Norway_bunad
Norwegian American Logo

The Norwegian American

Published since May 17, 1889 PO Box 30863 Seattle WA 98113 Tel: (206) 784-4617 • Email: naw@na-weekly.com

%d bloggers like this: