Some 20,000 tons of coking coal have been produced at the Elegesta Coal Field, in the Republic of Tuva, during a month of the technological development of coal seams. The Elegesta Coal Field is one of the world’s larges deposits of coking coal. The technological development of coal seams created conditions for the installation of [...]
A devastating gas explosion tore through a Siberian coal mine Monday, killing at least 78 miners, Russian officials said, as emergency workers raced to rescue dozens still trapped underground.
“The latest figures we have is 78 killed,” the Kemerovo regional administration’s spokesman Sergei Cheremnov said as quoted by the Interfax news agency.
Earlier, emergency ministry officials said [...]
A cargo train with coal and minerals derailed in central Russia late on Thursday, but nobody was injured and there was no ecological hazard.
Nineteen train cars with coal and minerals derailed at 20:00 Moscow time in Kirov region, a spokesman of the Russian Railways Company told Tass.
“Nobody was injured in the incident and there is [...]
Russia’s foreign minister denounced on Friday the detention of a Russian man accused of trying to sell highly enriched uranium to Georgian agents, calling it a “provocation.â€
A government scientist, meanwhile, confirmed that a sample of the uranium sent to Russia was weapons-grade, but said the sample was too small to determine its origin, news agencies [...]
The Iranian Foreign Ministry has strongly denied the possible suspension of the uranium enrichment research, the Itar-Tass News Agency reported.
“The [uranium enrichment] moratorium is totally unacceptable, from our point of view,” Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said on Sunday, according to the Tass report.
“A moratorium, even the one for three months, does not meet [...]
Iran was still studying Russia’s proposal to establish a joint venture for uranium enrichment, Iran’s ambassador to Russia said on Wednesday.
The proposal, which Russia offered to Iran at the end of last year, “is being discussed now” and “has been confirmed by Iran’s leaders,” the Itar-Tass news agency quoted Iranian Ambassador Gholam Reza Ansari [...]
