Murmansk ecologists stand against operation of old reactors at Kolsk power plant

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Murmansk Regional Youth Ecological Organization “Nature and Youth” staged a protest action against prolonging operation of the old reactors at the Kolsk nuclear power plant (KNPP).

As REGNUM was told by the initiators of the action, the organization believes that time constraints of operation of the Kolsk power plant were prolonged unduly, and the reactors pose danger to the nature people’s lives. In summer 2004, the “Nature and Youth” organization carried out a picket under the slogan “KNPP, observe the law!”. The ecologists urged to carry out a State Ecological Expertise of prolonging operation terms of the reactors envisaged by the law.

“In March 2005 the Murmansk Regional Prosecution Office pronounced we were right. An inspection showed that licensing was carried out with violations of law, according to the letter of the Prosecutor’s First Aid Nagimov. The Prosecutor’s office issued a regulation on eliminating violations in the use of nuclear power on March 28, 2005,” say the ecologists. But the violations have not been eliminated, so the ecologists had to stage another protest action.