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• Possible localization of dumped nuclear wastes, and investigations to detennine if leakage is 

 taking place from the dumped material to the marine environment. 



• Undertaking an impact analysis to determine the effects on human beings and the environment of 

 pollution from different sources. 



• Informing the public about the results of the investigations. 



The report gives further details and can be useful studying. 

 The programme v^ill be carried out in 1992 and 1993. 



Later reports from bilateral meetings give details on field investigations, methods to be used etc. 

 Field work to start 14 August 1992. 



3. Asserted Information on Nuclear Wastes. 



Please note that some of the listed information overlaps. This is due to the faa that the list is based on 

 various reports and sources. 



• 12 submarine nuclear reactors and three icebreaker reactors have been dumped in the watcn off 

 Novaya Zemlya 



• One whole submarine - the K-27 - powered by a liquid-metal cooled reaaor, was dumped in the 

 Stepovov Gulf after an accident in May 1968. Its two fueled nuclear reactors were dimiped in the 

 same location off the southem island in 1982. 



• Eight reactors, three of which still contain their nuclear fuel, were dumped with sections of four 

 accident-damaged nuclear submarines in waters just off the K-27. The submarine sections from the 

 K-1 1, K-3 Leninski Komsomol. K-19 Hiroshima, and one unknown - were reportedly dumped 

 during the yeais 1964-65. 



• Three damaged reactors from the icebreaker "Lenin" are dumped at sea close to Novaya Zemlya. 



• Over 17.000 containers of liquid and solid radioactive waste were dumped. 



• Novaya Zemlya ( Russian Arctic island ) is now the only nuclear test site in Russia, and has 

 proven to be one of the largest nuclear dumping grounds ( Alexander Yemelanenkov, Russian 

 chairman of the anti-testing association Towards Novaya Zemlya". and also by Andrei Zoloikov. 

 a nuclear engineer aboard the "Imandra", a nuclear refueling ship for icebreakers in Murmansk). 



• Novaya Zemlya Trench : 1450 containers. Barge with a damaged reactor ( activity: 170.000 Ci ) 

 Barge with liquid radioactive wastes. 



• Neypokoyev Gulf ( Novaya Zemlya ): Solid radioactive wastes ( activity : 3.400 Ci ). 



• Sivolky Gulf ( Novaya Zemlya ) : 4750 containers. The barge "Bauman". The central section of the 

 icebreaker "Lenin" and screen assembly and three damaged reactors. 



• Oga Gulf ( Novaya Zemlya ) : 850 containers. 



• Stepovov Gulf ( Novaya Zemlya ) : 1850 containers and a damaged nuclear submarine with two 

 fueled nuclear reactors. The submarine is reportedly the K-27 which had a liquid metal accident on 

 24 May 1968, the reactor; were dumped in 1982. 



• Abrosimov Gulf ( Novaya Zemlya ) : 550 containers. Sections of four accident-damaged nuclear 

 submarines with a total of eight reactors, three of which still contain nuclear fuel. Sections of 

 submarines K-1 1. K-19 Hiroshima, K-3 Leninski Komsomol, and another unknown, that were 

 dumped in 1964-65. The K-19 had a severe accident in the North Atlantic in 1961. 



• Blagopoluchiye Gulf ( Novaya Zemlya ) : 650 container. 



