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Article: Hazard from Soviet nuclear dumps assessed. (dumping into Barents and Kara Seas)
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- Science News
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- May 15, 1993
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In the wake of recent revelations concerning the Soviet Union's dumping of nuclear reactors and radioactive waste into the ocean, Russian scientists met last week in Anchorage with experts from several Arctic nations to detail the history of disposal and discuss plans to assess the hazard. Although expeditions this summer will provide more complete information, Norwegian and Russian researchers' preliminary measurements indicate that concentrations of dangerous radionuclides remain relatively low near the sunken reactors, suggesting that major leaks have not yet developed.
These studies and others presented at last week's Interagency Arctic Research Policy ...