There has been much in the press lately about Russia’s need and interest in becoming more energy-efficient. The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) just published a report on the “Energy Sector and Sustainable Development.” It is comprehensive report (all 170 pages), which lays out the human and economic impacts if Russia continues as an energy [...]
Archive for April, 2010
Moving to Energy Efficiency
Posted in Business, US-Russia Relations, tagged energy efficiency, Russia, US Russia on April 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Russia Closes Last Plutonium Reactor
Posted in US-Russia Relations, tagged nuclear reactors, Russia, US Russian on April 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
At 4am on April 15th, Russia closed down its last plutonium plant in Zheleznogorsk. Although this came at the end of a very successful nonproliferation meeting in Washington, DC this closure has been in the works for at least a decade. I know Zheleznogorsk well. FRAEC worked with the Department of Energy for seven years [...]
