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Message Subject WARNING: Russians Dumped Old Nuclear Reactors and Radioactive Waste Into Sea
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Ummm radioactive TUNA!!!

Enormous quantities of decommissioned Russian nuclear reactors and radioactive waste were dumped into the Kara Sea in the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia over a course of decades, according to documents given to Norwegian officials by Russian authorities and published in Norwegian media.



The catalogue of waste dumped at sea by the Soviets, according to documents seen by Bellona, and which were today released by the Norwegian daily Aftenposten, includes some 17,000 containers of radioactive waste, 19 ships containing radioactive waste, 14 nuclear reactors, including five that still contain spent nuclear fuel; 735 other pieces of radiactively contaminated heavy machinery, and the K-27 nuclear submarine with its two reactors loaded with nuclear fuel.


[link to www.bellona.org]
 Quoting: Badcarma69


Where have you been? The Soviets have been doing this for 50 years, or more, and we've known about it, in great detail, since at least 1991.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 19228212


New York Times 11/24/1992

Russian authorities have disclosed the precise sites where four nuclear submarines laden with missiles and torpedoes have sunk as well as the locations near the Arctic island of Novaya Zemlaya where several Russian reactors and other radioactive waste were dumped over the last 30 years.

The disclosures are part of Russian-American negotiations on how to monitor the dumped radioactive material and do what is possible to prevent its escape.

The negotiators on the Russian side included leading military officials, submarine designers and nuclear engineers. The American delegation was led by Dr. Charles D. Hollister, a senior scientist of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Reactors Dumped at Sea

Besides four submarines lost at sea, the Russians have said that several decommissioned naval nuclear reactors were dumped in shallow waters in the Eastern Arctic. These include four submarine reactor compartments, dumped in the Abrosimov Gulf in 20 to 40 meters of water in 1965 and 1966.

Three reactors from the nuclear-powered icebreaker Lenin were dropped into the Sivolky Gulf in 1967. A barge with a submarine reactor was sunk in the Kara Sea 1972. The submarine K-27 was jettisoned after an emergency with two fuel-laden reactors in Stepovov Gulf 1982. In 1988, a reactor was dumped with Techeniya Gulf.
 
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