Emergency shutdown of Nine Mile Point nuclear reactor
Nine Mile Point reactor shut down after primary containment declared inoperable following leak Enformable, 14 Dec 12 The Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station is a two-unit nuclear power plant located in the Town of Scriba, approximately five miles northeast of Oswego, New York, on the shore of Lake Ontario. While both units onsite are General Electric BWRs, the Unit 1 reactor is one of the two oldest nuclear reactors still in service in the United States; New Jersey’s Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station is the other.
Event Details
Thursday night, during normal operation, a leakage of nitrogen to maintain Primary Containment pressure within specification was noted at Unit 1 (General Electric BWR Mark 1) in excess of that allowed per Technical Specification 3.3.3.a (An overall integrated leakage rate of less than 1.5% by weight of the containment air per day (La), at 35 psig (Pac).).
This event required the containment system to be declared inoperable, and nuclear reactor to be manually scrammed and shutdown until the utility is able to ensure the safety of the containment system to ensure control of the release of radioactive material. Continue reading
UN sounds alarm on unsecured uranium waste in Tajikistan
UNECE praised the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for trying to set up projects to help the country manage its radioactive waste, but stressed that “due to the magnitude of the problem, it is hard to envisage that this issue will be solved in the foreseeable future.”
14 December 2012
AFP
The United Nations warned Friday that nearly 55 million tonnes of radioactive waste from old Soviet-era uranian mines remain in unsecured sites in northern Tajikistan.
The former Soviet republic, where Stalin’s empire once mined uranium to create its first nuclear bomb, is still stuck with about 54.8 million tonnes of unsecured waste from the now mainly abandoned mines, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) said.
The waste is “not treated, not confined, not secured,” agency spokesman Jean Rodriguez told reporters in Geneva.
In its second environmental performance report for the country, the UN agency lamented the lack of progress made to clean up the radioactive waste, which it said appeared to remain at the same level as in 1990.
“The state of radioactive waste storage is one of the main problems in Tajikistan,” it said, noting that a number of the unsecured sites are near Khujand, Tajikistan’s second largest city.
ACRO: The Fukushima disaster from day to day
Translated from french
Posted on December 14, 2012
Thursday, December 13:
• While an international conference organized by the IAEA is expected this weekend in Koriyama, Fukushima province. Against a conference in Tokyo organized by associations that require the permanent cessation of the nuclear industry. Another is in Koriyama organized by mayors opposed to nuclear power. A manifestion is also planned in Tokyo in Hibiya Park and the next in Koriyama. On Sunday 16th, the Japanese are also eligible to vote.
• The Ministry of Science and Technology is still hoping to save the Monju breeder when he does not, it is proliferating, it is probably an active fault, the safety culture is absent … In short, it is very dangerous, but it can produce weapons-grade plutonium … The Department has attempted to establish a research program to justify the continuation of the program.
The NRA has intimate Monju operators to improve security and resolve serious maintenance problems that have been identified.
• At a hearing by the Ministry of Industry about its desire to increase its rates, Kyushu Electric has claimed that it will sell its electricity 35.64% more expensive on average (admire the precision!) If no nuclear reactor restarts. Currently, the company requests an average increase of 8.51% to 14.22% for households and companies capitalizing on the fact that four of its six reactors will be restarted.
Kansai Electric (KEPCO) is not left table and also four nuclear reactors restarted its application to estimate average increase of 11.88% for households.
• After Oi and Tsuruga, it was the turn of faults in the central province of Higashidori in Aomori be oscultées by the group of experts set up by the NRA. Along the fault s-19, there was a shift of 90 cm. The operator, Tohoku Electric Power Company, says that this is not due to seismic activity but swelling layers due to water absorption.Experts have serious doubts about this explanation. After the inspection, they think rather that the movement is due to an active fault near. The inspection continues Friday and the verdict is expected within a week.
• After repeatedly deceived and its corrections, the NRA has issued new cards to predict the impact of radioactive fallout in the event of a major accident in the 17 nuclear power plants in the country. The biggest changes are for the central Genkai (Saga province) and Sendai (Kagoshima), both on the island of Kyushu and the Tomari plant in Hokkaido. A Kyushu is the compass that was false and Hokkaido precipitation.
These maps are based on the standard exhaust IAEA is 100 mSv in the first week. But the NRA wants to set a threshold twice as low as the criterion, which corresponds to a dose rate of 500 microsieverts per hour at which the evacuation is ordered.
Wednesday, December 12:
• TEPCO has posted videos after the investigation carried out in the reactor building No. 2 with the quadruped robot. She found no leak. However, the reactor No. 2 is leaking and TEPCO still do not know where.
• Always leaks in the turbine building # 3. Contaminated water that has leaked is 11 600 Bq / L for both cesium.
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Ffukushima-informations.fr%2F%3Fp%3D5036&anno=2
See www.acro.eu.org
Japan -Metropolitan Coalition Against Nukes -12 14 脱原発国会議事堂前 小沢一郎さん演説 -Video in Japanese
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYu4md3HMO8
Grand Election Finish 【48】
Finally Ichiro Ozawa (小沢一郎) appeared at “Metropolitan Coalition Against Nuke”(首都圏反原発連合) which is the core institution of the last 18 months’ demonstrations.
Ozawa appeared within the Sprechchor of “再稼働反対（Saikado Hantai, No reactivation）” and Speaks Out the Truth.
Core of his Speech:
「マスメディアは当初から脱原発を、選挙の争点から外そうとしている。
（Mass Media tries to shade No Nuke from the theme of Election）
脱原発は、即時に可能である。
このままでは、日本の将来はない。
（No children, No future.）」
（Full Contents in search→Retrieved）
「
脱原発隠しは既得権の癒着の中で、マスコミさえも組み込まれている、本当に大きな日本社会のいびつ、最大のミスだ。
（Mass Media obsolete the voice of No Nuke and is built in protecting vested rights. This distortion is the biggest mistake of JAPAN,）
このままでは日本の未来は暗闇に包まれてしまう。
(Japanese future will be buried in the darkness if we fail to correct this.)
日本の未来を子供達を心配する皆さんの声を一人でも多くの人たちにに伝えてください。
(No Children, No future.)」
BBC: “One of the most contaminated places on Earth” — Silence is deafening 10 miles from Fukushima plant — Nuclear power’s lie has been so tragically exposed
http://enenews.com/bbc-one-of-the-most-contaminated-places-on-earth-silence-is-deafening-10-miles-from-fukushima-plant-nuclear-powers-lie-has-been-so-tragically-exposed
Published: December 14th, 2012 at 2:13 am ET
By ENENews
Title: Why Japan’s ‘Fukushima 50′ remain unknown
Source: BBC News
Author: Rupert Wingfield-Hayes
Date: 13 December 2012
Entering the exclusion zone around the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant is an unnerving experience.
It is, strictly speaking, also illegal. It is an old cliché to say that radiation is invisible. But without a Geiger counter, it would be easy to forget that this is now one of the most contaminated places on Earth.
The small village of Tatsuno lies in a valley 15km (9.3 miles) from the plant. In the sunlight, the trees on the hillsides are a riot of yellow and gold. But then I realise the fields were once neat rice paddies. Now the grass and weeds tower over me.
On the village main street, the silence is deafening – not a person, car, bike or dog. At one house, washing still flaps in the breeze. And all around me, invisible, in the soil, on the trees, the radiation lingers. […]
Back in the 1960s and 70s, getting rural Japanese communities to accept nuclear power plants was hard.
[…] they were promised that nuclear power was completely safe.
Now that the lie has been so tragically exposed, the feeling of betrayal is huge. […]
Crackdown: Japanese professor’s arrest “extremely unjust” — Publicly opposed burning of radioactive debris
Published: December 14th, 2012 at 2:23 pm ET
By ENENews
Title: Unjust Arrest of a Professor Opposing Debris Incineration in Osaka
Source: Civic Activity (Organization supporting citizens opposing spread of radiation)
Translation: Fukushima Voice
Date: December 14, 2012
[…] On December 9, 2012, Masaki Shimoji, an associate professor of economics at Hannan University was arrested by the Osaka Prefectural Police. This arrest is extremely unjust in form and content. It is clearly a crackdown on citizens’ movement.
Professor Shimoji and others are opposing the “areawide management of the disaster debris” measure, which intended to spread, incinerate and bury harmful substances in the disaster debris all over Japan that should not be incinerated, such as radioactive material and asbestos. Osaka-city is trying tobegin regular incineration and burial beginning in February 2013.
The following is the timeline for the arrest:
At 3 pm on October 17, 2012, voluntary citizens opposing to test incineration of disaster debris in Osaka-city, including associate professor Shimoji, gathered on the sidewalk outside the northeast corner of Osaka station. They began to walk towards Osaka city hall, walking through the east concourse inside Osaka station from north to south. This act was considered a “violation of Railway Operation Act,” “forcible obstruction of business, “ and ”non-withdrawal,” and used as charges for the arrest.
However, this act of “walking through the station” was conducted nearly two months ago, and it is extremely unnatural for them to arrest him for it now. We can’t help but consider it as an intentional crackdown on citizens’ movement. […]
Dec. 12, 2012 letter from Professor Shimoji here
Japan -Radiation forecast maps corrected again for all nuke plants
“The NRA said its predecessor, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA), gave ambiguous instructions when it commissioned the Japan Nuclear Energy Safety Organization (JNES) in March to create the forecast maps. JNES, which won the contract, failed to double-check the specifications, while the NRA also failed to define the procedures for checking them after it took over the mission from the now-defunct NISA.
The NRA on Dec. 13 verbally admonished three officials in charge of the matter.”
December 14, 2012
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) on Dec. 13 released corrections to all of its radiation forecast maps, which show the likely spread of radioactive substances from a serious accident at 16 nuclear power plants across Japan.
The corrections affect all of the nuclear plants under study, which do not include the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, site of the reactor meltdowns following an earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, or the Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor.
The forecast maps show the likely spread of radioactive substances in the event of an accident similar in scale to the Fukushima disaster, and the corrections are expected to affect the ongoing efforts by local governments situated near nuclear plants to draw up emergency evacuation plans.
Errors in the maps have been found on successive occasions since the nuclear regulatory agency initially released them on Oct. 24.
The most significant errors discovered in the recent overhaul concerned the forecast maps for the Tomari plant in Hokkaido, the Genkai plant in Saga Prefecture, and the Sendai plant in Kagoshima Prefecture.
Norway to commence testing of promising new nuclear fool
“Despite abundant oil reserves which have made Norway one of the world’s most affluent countries on a per capita GDP basis, the Scandinavian nation has always been a strong advocate of nuclear power, no doubt partially due to its extensive thorium deposits.”
Marc Howe | December 14, 2012
The Norwegian government plans to conduct trial usage of the nuclear fuel thorium, considered by many to be one of the most promising future energy sources, at its existing nuclear facilities.
Business Insider reports that the Norwegian government will be conducting the trials in collaboration with the USA’s Westinghouse and Norway’s own Thor Energy.
Despite abundant oil reserves which have made Norway one of the world’s most affluent countries on a per capita GDP basis, the Scandinavian nation has always been a strong advocate of nuclear power, no doubt partially due to its extensive thorium deposits.
Thorium was in fact first discovered by a Norwegian mineralogist, who named the radioactive mineral after the Norse god of thunder.
Thorium is touted by many, including Microsoft founder Bill Gates, as a preferable alternative to uranium as a nuclear fuel source. Its key advantages vis-a-vis uranium include greater abundance, improved power generation, less waste, and most crucially the fact that thorium plants are considered to be impervious to meltdowns.
China and India are also currently considering the inclusion of thorium-powered nuclear plants as significant components of their national energy portfolios.
The Norwegian trials will make use of an existing heavy-water nuclear reactor, instead of the molten salt or pebble bed reactors which are considered to be best suited to thorium power generation.
(“thorium power desperation” in my opinion – Arclight)
http://www.mining.com/norway-to-commence-testing-of-promising-new-nuclear-fuel-72358/
Paladin granted mining license for Malawi uranium project
Malawi’s Mining and Energy Ministry has granted uranium miner Paladin a mining licence for the Kayelekera uranium project, clearing the way for construction to start.
The Malawian government has granted Paladin a mining licence, covering 55,5 km2 over a period of 15 years, after which the licence would be renewable for a further ten years, the company said this week.
Commissioning at Kayelekera was scheduled for September 2008 and full productconcrete portable crushing machinesion, some 3,3-million pounds of U3O8, was expected to be reached in the second quarter of 2009.
The company reported that iron dressing from iron ore plant designthe selection of the engineering, procurement and construction manager was at an advanced stage and that the mining contractor tender was at the final stages of rused track crusher for saleeview.
“Commencement of construction of the Kayelekera uranium project marks a highly auspicious moment in the development of Paladin towards becoming a major uranium sstone crusher plants from europe supplier to the global markets,” MD John Borshoff said.
Paladin would spend $185-million on building the project. The major portion of the capital small concrete batch plant price expenditure had been raised through its $250-million convertible bond raising, which was carried out in December.
The company said that the banking syndicate that provided project debt finance for the Langer Heinrich uranium project, in Namibia, was expected to provide a similar debt-funding package for Kayelekera.
Further, Paladin said that it would start exploration to extend the project life beyond the 11 years as stated in the bankable feasibility study. Paladin holds exploration properties around Kayelekera, which covers 1 140 km2.
Paladin expects to produce in the order of 31-million pounds of uranium by 2012 from Langer Heinrich and Kayelekera and, using a price forecasting of $90/lb, the total revenue generated during the period woudl be in the order of $2,8-billion.
http://www.ubcc.se/2012/12/paladin-granted-mining-license-for-malawi-uranium-project/
Unreported by the Media: America’s Nuclear Weapons Tests. The Truth is a “Bitter Pill”
On December 13, North Korea’s state-run news agency issued a two-sentence statement via radio, joining critics in Iran and Japanese hibakusha and anti-nuclear activists who have condemned the U.S.’s December 5th subcritical nuclear experiment named ‘Pollux.’
The critical part of the North Korean statement, as translated by a BBC news monitoring service, reads: ‘Despite strong objection and denunciation from the world community, the United States is continuously and frantically clinging onto carrying out nuclear tests for developing new nuclear weapons.’
There are elements of truth and mistruth in North Korea’s statement. Let’s start with the mistruths. Contrary to misleading statements made in blogs and by some in the international media, the recent subcritical experiment was not a nuclear test. Nor did it lead to any leaked radiation. These tests occur in a fortified containment in an underground tunnel that prevents the possibility of an accidental release (although one similar test, decades ago, did cause a fire).
The U.S. Department of Energy argues that because it can’t conduct a real nuclear test to ensure that aging components and weapons-grade plutonium inside U.S. nuclear warheads are still reliable, it therefore has to resort to subcritical tests and other so-called ‘stockpile stewardship’ experiments.
As long as these laboratory tests on plutonium (and warhead weapons parts) don’t induce a runaway chain reaction, the U.S. is allowed by the CTBT to do these things. A runaway chain reaction, by the way, is the modern definition of a nuclear explosion, but modern doesn’t mean good. In fact, the current definition of ‘nuclear explosion’ is a very bad one. Why? Well, no one opposing nuclear weapons has ever said they oppose them on the grounds that they’re designed to induce a domino effect on the fissioning of plutonium. People complain about nukes because of the size of the energy release these weapons of mass (or worldwide) destruction are designed to discharge – as heat, blast and radiation. It would make more sense to ban all man-made nuclear energy releases.
Critics of the U.S. program allege that the hundreds and hundreds of stockpile stewardship experiments conducted since the U.S. signed the CTBT and the fact that most of them are duplicate experiments of precursor ones suggest that the program is not, or not any longer, credible. The thought is that the program is either a big boondoggle or the Department of Energy is secretly designing new nuclear weapons.
Defiant N Korea stages rally amid nuclear fears
By: AFP | December 15, 2012
SEOUL – Hundreds of thousands of North Koreans rallied Friday in the freezing cold to revel in the country’s rocket launch as South Korea voiced concern that its rival could follow up with a third nuclear test.
The enormous rally in central Pyongyang came two days after the launch of the rocket and just ahead of Monday’s anniversary of the death of new leader Kim Jong-Un’s father.
The West fears the launch has taken the nuclear power a step closer to firing intercontinental ballistic missiles across the planet, and it has provoked UN Security Council condemnation along with calls for more sanctions. North Korea is already under international sanctions for conducting two nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009, which both came after long-range rocket launches, and South Korea said history could be repeating itself. “A nuclear test is highly probable, and judging from analysis of intelligence, significant preparations have been made,” Unification Minister Yu Woo-Ik told a parliamentary committee in Seoul, without elaborating. “North Korea has a track record of conducting nuclear tests following missile launches whose aim was to develop a delivery system for nuclear warheads,” he added. Refuelling its criticism of Wednesday’s launch, the US State Department said Kim had the chance as new leader “to take his country back into the 21st century” but instead was making the “wrong choices”.
Unbowed, North Korean state media said Kim, who is in his late 20s, had personally signed off on firing the three-stage rocket and had declared his regime’s “unshakable stand” that the programme will continue. Kim stressed the need “to launch satellites in the future… to develop the country’s science, technology and economy”, according to the North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) as it gave new details of the launch. The “dear respected Marshal” visited mission control an hour before the rocket took off on Wednesday morning and praised the “ardent loyalty and patriotic devotion” of the technical team, KCNA said in the report early Friday.
The report gave no reaction to the international opprobrium that has been heaped on North Korea since the rocket went up, ostensibly to place aresearch satellite in orbit, with even close ally China expressing its “regrets”.
One U.S. Nuclear Reactor Uses as Much Water as All of D.C.
CAITLIN DICKSON , 2011
“It takes the same amount of water required by a city of 5 million to fuel a typical U.S. nuclear power plant for one hour: 30 million gallons, Fast Company reports. Charles Fishman, author of the bookThe Big Thirst, notes that “the U.S. has 104 nuclear power plants–more than any other country, a quarter of all plants worldwide.” As the world’s largest energy consumer, “49% of the water used in the U.S. goes to generate electricity,” Fishman notes. That’s “the single largest use of water” in the country.”
Military To Continue Bombing Nuclear Waste Dumps In Hawaii
December 14, 2012
Sleuthjournal
Jim Albertini Malu ‘Aina Center For Non-violent Education & Action
Comments on Dec. 12, 2012 NRC meeting with the Army in Maryland from 10AM-1PM Hawaii time. The public could listen in and make comments/ask questions at the end of the meeting.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will be issuing a license for the mongoose to guard the hen house in Hawaii. The Army will be issued an NRC license to possess Depleted uranium (DU) in Hawaii at Schofield Barracks and the Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA).
In effect, the NRC is licensing Hawaii nuclear waste dumps and allowing those dumps to be bombed, spreading the nuclear dump debris wherever the wind takes it. The State Dept. of Health made no comment, nor did it ask any questions, following the meeting. It is a fact that DU exists at Schofield Barracks and PTA, and perhaps other present and former military sites in Hawaii, including Kaho’olawe and Makua Valley. How much is not known.
A minimum of 700, perhaps more than 2000, DU Davy Crockett spotting rounds have been fired at Pohakuloa. Less than 1% of PTA’s 133,000-acres have been surveyed. DU cluster bombs, and more than a dozen DU penetrating rounds, DU bunker busters, etc. may also have been fired at PTA and elsewhere. All branches of the US military use DU weapons today. It’s clear to me that we cannot rely on so called regulators to fix the problem.
Nuclear regulators are just as much part of the problem as bankregulators. The DOH is also part of the problem. Where have our health officials been all these years on the issue. The military in Hawaii has lied and use deception repeatedly. The US military mission goes before concern for the health and safety of its own troops and Hawaii’s people and land. Uranium is now showing up in Big Island residents’ urine. Is it related to PTA, Fukushima or what? The people have a right to know.
Is the military above the law? What’s needed is a peoples’ movement of non-violent resistance to stop the bombing to protect the people and land of Hawaii against attacks by the U.S. military.
http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/military-to-continue-bombing-nuclear-waste-dumps-in-hawaii/
Launch of Russia’s first floating nuclear plant pushed back several years – again
Bellona
Charles Digges, 14/12-2012
Hindered by contract delays,bankruptcy proceedings, and switching ownership of the company that is building it, plans to launch Russia’s first floating nuclear power plant have again been scuttled, with the new launch date pushed back from this year to 2016, Bellona has learned.
In all, Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom wishes to produce six 70 megawatt floating nuclear power plants (FNPPs), which it says are designed to deliver power to far flung regionsalong its own northern Arctic coast, and says further that the plants are a hot item on the wish list of foreign customers, mainly China.
Many of these potential foreign customers had been hoping Russia would meet its originally promised deadline for FNPP delivery of 2010.
Environmental outcry over FNPPshas been present since their inception. Russia has neither the means nor infrastructure to ensure their safe operation, has made no plans for disposing of their spent nuclear fuel (SNF), and has not taken into consideration the enormous nuclear proliferation risks posed by placing nuclear reactors in remote areas.
Furthermore, officials apparently have not considered their vulnerability to terrorist attacks while on site or during transportation to their intendedlocations.
But the fates of shifting shipyards, bankruptcy of the shipyard to where the first floating nuclear power plant was transferred, and the acquisition of the foundering shipyard by other financial holdings have not been kind to the timely launch of one of Rosatom’s pet projects – and have more than once shed doubt on whether the environmentally dicey project would be completed at all.
“With the constant changes of venue for construction, ownership and pushed back delivery dates, one begins to wonder whether this ill-advised project will ever see the light of day,” said Bellona’s general manager and nuclear physicist Nils Bøhmer.
This first FNPP, the Akademik Lomonosov, is scheduled for deployment in Russia’s Far East Kamchatka region, which is prone to tsunamis and far for an ideal location for a nuclear power plant – especially moored at sea.
First FNPP already the world’s most travelled
The keel for, the Akademik Lomonosov, was initially laid in 2007 at the Sevmash shipyard in Russia’s far north and Far East. In 2008, Rosatom said that it would transfer its construction to Baltiysky Zavod because Sevmash was inundated with military contracts.
Russia first to break route in northern Arctic ice – Arctic development on way!
The National
The cold blue Arctic Ocean has been open for shipping all summer, a clear swathe of water stretching from Norway’s north cape to the Bering Sea and Russia’s far east.
There haven’t been too many venturing into its sea lanes so far, just a few pioneers testing the waters.
Last week, the Ob River, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier, successfully completed the world’s first LNG voyage via the far northern sea route. And it was quicker and cheaper than the conventional route from Norway to Japan.
“If a cargo ship with a maximum load capacity of 40,000 tonnes can pass through the northern sea route, that will shorten the journey by 22 days and cost US$839,000 [Dh3 million] less than going through the Suez Canal,” says Felix Tschudi, the chairman of Tschudi Shipping in Norway.
The Ob River, chartered by the Russian energy giant Gazprom, left the port of Hammerfest in Norway on November 7 and arrived at the LNG terminal in Tobata, Japan, last Wednesday. Its ship and crew delivered 150,000 cubic metres of gas to eager Japanese consumers and achieved what navigators from the 15th-century explorer John Cabot down to Sir John Franklin, whose entire expedition vanished in northern Canada in 1847, had only dreamed of.
All thanks to the melting Arctic ice cap. And it is disappearing fast.
According to US government scientists, satellite imagery showed Arctic sea ice on September 16 had shrunk to its smallest since records began 33 years ago. The average annual minimum area since 1979 has been 6.2 million square kilometres – this year it is just 3.4 million sq km.
But the jury is still out on whether that means the dreams of Cabot and Franklin have come true, yet.
Gas shippers want it to be true because nuclear power plants in Japan, after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, have shut down, spurring a grab for gas to make up the energy shortfall.
And shipping gas over the top of the planet rather than across the Mediterranean, through the Suez Canal, Red and Arabian Seas, Indian Ocean, the Malacca Straits and the South China Sea is a lot quicker – and cheaper. Also, it avoids the pirate-infested waters off Somalia and in the Malacca Straits.
But the Ob River had some heavyweight help on its record-setting voyage. It had to be accompanied by two Russian nuclear-powered icebreakers for much of the trip.
The first half, between the Barents Sea and the Kara Sea, was relatively ice-free, but during the second half of the passage, from the Vilkitsky Strait to the Bering Strait, the LNG carrier was butting through “young”, or recently formed, ice with a thickness of up 30cm.
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