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Dumping of radioactive waste in the Barents- and Kara Seas
Author | F.Hague, T.Nilsen, K.E.Nilsen, Bellona |
Date | November 1992 |
Classification | 2.34.4.10/02 (RUSSIA - WASTE / REPROCESSING GENERAL) |
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INTRODUCTION Since 1989 the Environmental Foundation Bellona have been working on a survey of the extent of dumping of radioactive materials in the Barents and Kara Seas. The result of this work is presented in this report. The Soviet Union signed the London Convention in 1976. The former Soviet authorities and the present authorities in Russia have both claimed that the London Convention does not include waste from military sources. Both the present end the former authorities in Russia denied for a long time that any dumping has been taking place. Their last denial towards this issue was put forth in 1991. This has now changed today Borris Jeltsin' s chief adviser in ecological questions Aleksej Jaboklev says that according to the information he has it has been dumped reactors in the Barents and Kara Seas. He says however that the information about the dumping-activities is not complete, and that the secretiveness in the navy is the main problem. It is in particular disturbing that the Russian navy seems to be "a state within the state". It is clear that the military authorities has not fulfilled their obligation to protect the Russian population against nuclear contamination, in fact the contrary has happened, they the military authorities - have been responsible for nuclear contamination of vast areas in Russia and other areas inside the former USSR. The first time Bellona presented information about the dumping of radioactive materials in this area was in 1990. In the months that followed we heard a lot of rumours about dumping of radioactive materials. There was especially many rumours about the reactors from the nuclear icebreaker "Lenin". (1) IAEA-TECDOC-588 1991. Vienna. (2) Aftenposten 26.11.92.
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