Nuclear Waste Kara Sea

The kara sea is part of the arctic ocean to the north of siberia.

Nuclear reactor uranium china buat matahari. 17000 containers and 19 vessels with radioactive waste as well as 14 nuclear. Duursma ek carroll j. 1994 the joint norwegianrussian expedition to the dump sites or radioactive waste in the open kara sea the tsivolki fjord and the stepovogo fjord september october 1993.

Technical memorandum rncnstm431 department of nuclear science and technology royal naval college greenwich london. Solid high and low level wastes unloaded from northern fleet nuclear submarines during reactor refuelings were dumped in the kara sea mainly in the shallow fjords of novaya zemlya where the depths of the dumping sites range from 12 to 135 meters and in the novaya zemlya trough at depths of up to 380 meters. The kara sea becomes a nuclear waste dump.

In addition two complete submarines will be lifted the k 27 from the kara sea and the k 159 from the barents sea. From 1946 through 1993 thirteen countries used ocean disposal or ocean dumping as a method to dispose of nuclearradioactive wastethe waste materials included both liquids and solids housed in various containers as well as reactor vessels with and without spent or damaged nuclear fuel. The kara sea was used as the soviet unions dustbin for nuclear waste all the way up to 1990.

It was all kept secret and the first official report about the sea dumping was published by president boris yeltsins environmental advisor alexey yablokov in 1993. The nrpa kara sea findings. Cite this chapter as.

The list of objects includes the reactors of the submarines k 11 k 19 and k 140 and spent nuclear fuel from the reactor of the former icebreaker lenin. And is separated from the barents sea to the west by the novaya zemlya islands. For more than a decade western governments have been helping russia to remove nuclear fuel from decommissioned.

Besides k 27 official figures show that the soviet military dumped a huge quantity of nuclear waste in the kara sea. Since 1993 ocean disposal has been banned by international treaties. Toxic nuclear waste dumps in the arctic kara sea.

While the first mentioned submarine was. Tetcehninya bay two reactors of the nuclear submarine k 22 n538 dumped in 1988 without snf spent nuclear fuel sedova bay. Russia explores old nuclear waste dumps in arctic by laurence peter bbc news 24 jan 13 the toxic legacy of the cold war lives on in russias arctic where the soviet military dumped many tonnes of radioactive hardware at sea.

1996 nuclear waste in the kara sea.