The article provides an overview of the FSUE Atomflot activities aimed at improving infrastructure and production facilities for management spent nuclear fuel radioactive waste ensuring nuclear, radiation environmental safety, both in Murmansk region throughout northwestern Russia. Carrying out work within Federal Target Program “Ensuring safety 2016—2020 period up to 2030” cooperation with str...

Robots and remote systems will play crucial roles in future decontamination and decommissioning (D&D) of nuclear facilities. Many of these facilities, such as uranium enrichment plants, weapons assembly plants, research and production reactors, and fuel recycling facilities, are dormant; there is also an increasing number of commercial reactors whose useful lifetime is nearly over. To reduce wo...

The cycling of CH4 (“radiomethane”) through the atmosphere has been strongly perturbed in the industrial era by the release of 14C-free methane from geologic reservoirs (“fossil methane” emissions), and in the nuclear era, especially since ca 1970, by the direct release of nucleogenic radiomethane from nuclear power facilities. Contemporary measurements of atmospheric radiomethane have been use...