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  • Nuclear safety situation at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant is “deteriorating”

    19 August 2024

    International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi has said that the nuclear safety situation at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) is deteriorating following a drone strike that hit the road around the plant site perimeter on 17 August....

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  • “Greenwashing”: industry now able to provide independent proof for environmental claims

    14 November 2023

    With accusations of greenwashing increasing, industry has urgently needed independent proof that environmental and sustainability claims have been established based on agreed methodology and best practice....

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  • Coal mine fire leaves 46 dead in Kazakhstan

    07 November 2023

    A fire in a ArcelorMittal coal mine in Kazakhstan killed 46 people on 28 October. The fire at the steel giant’s Kostenco mine in Kazakhstan's eastern Karaganda Region is reported to have started after a methane explosion occurred underground....

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  • Cylinder rupture at Russian uranium enrichment plant kills worker

    16 July 2023

    A technician at a uranium enrichment plant in Russia’s Urals region was killed after a cylinder containing a depleted uranium compound depressurised on 14 July. State nuclear company Rosatom said in a statement that a worker died as a result of “mechanical impacts” and that radiation levels at the plant and in the surrounding area remained normal....

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  • Five killed, 12 injured in gunpowder plant explosion

    27 June 2023

    Five people died and 12 others were injured after an explosion at a gunpowder factory in Russia’s central Tambov region on 20 June. The incident happened at the Tambov Gunpowder Plant and was blamed on “human factors” by local officials....

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Explosion at one of Siberia’s largest refineries kills two, injures five 19 December 2022

An explosion and fire at the Rosneft-operated Angarsk refinery, the biggest by output in eastern Siberia, killed two workers and injured five others on December 15. The incident is the second to have occurred at the facility in a matter of weeks after a fire broke out in November....

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ArcelorMittal mine explosion kills five, injures four 04 November 2022

A methane gas explosion killed five people at an ArcelorMittal coal mine in Kazakhstan on November 3. The steel manufacturer said that four people were also hospitalised by the blast which happened at a mine in the Qaraghandy region in central Kazakhstan....

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Energy crisis drives $73bn spend on green hydrogen projects, new study says 21 October 2022

The war in Ukraine and resulting energy crisis has spurred over $70 billion (£62.9bn) of fresh investment in green hydrogen projects in just a few months. A new report published by Carbon Tracker also found that fossil fuel-produced hydrogen has become uneconomic as gas prices soar, meaning $100 billion of ‘dirty’ hydrogen assets could become stranded by 2030....

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IAEA projections for nuclear power growth increase for second year amid climate, energy security concerns 30 September 2022

For a second successive year, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has revised up its annual projections of the potential growth of nuclear power during the coming decades, reflecting a shift in the global debate over energy and the environment amid growing concerns over energy security and climate change....

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Qatar partners with energy majors to expand world’s largest LNG project 05 July 2022

QatarEnergy announced on July 5 that it has signed a deal with Shell as part of the North Field East expansion project, the single largest project in the history of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry. Shell joins Exxon, TotalEnergies, ConocoPhillips, and Eni in partnering with state-owned QatarEnergy for the planned expansion at the world's largest gas field....

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