The story
Founded by Frederic Hauge and Rune Haaland on Jun 16, 1986.1
In 1994, the Bellona Foundation's report "Sources of Radioactive Contamination in Murmansk
and Archangelsk Counties" raised serious concerns about the safety of the decommissioned Soviet nuclear-powered submarines after the dissolution of the USSR. In February 1996, Russian FSB arrested Bellona's Russian expert Alexander Nikitin, a former Soviet naval officer, and charged him with treason through espionage for his contributions to Bellona's report on the nuclear safety within the Russian Northern Fleet. The Russian Supreme Court exonerated him in 2000.
In 2003, Bellona assessed radioactive contamination at Sellafield nuclear reprocessing facility in England.
At the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen, Bellona presented "101 Solutions to Climate Change".
In 2013, Bellona Foundation filed a police report after it learned that a "disposal well in the Norwegian Sea owned by Norway's state oil company Statoil leaked 3,428 tons of hazardous chemicals and oil-based drilling fluids over six years at the Njord site".
Russia's invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 led Bellona to terminate its operations in Russia, close its offices, and relocate its staff and expertise to a new office in Vilnius, which opened in 2023.
In April 2023, Russia declared Bellona as an "undesirable" organization.
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