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Techenniya Gulf ( Novaya Zemlya ) : Accident-damaged nuclear reactor without their nuclear fuel 

 ( Activity: 1.850 Ci ). Open sea ( two different sites ) : 400 and 250 containers respectively. 

 Unnamed location on southern end of Novaya Zemlya : presumed location of regional radioactive 

 waste storage. 

 Sites of Nuclear Explosions on Novaya Zemlya : 



- Sylchoy Nos Cape : The area where the biggest atmospheric nuclear explosions took place. 



- Matochin Oiar : This is where the last test took place. 



- Black Inlet : Area of the first underwater, above water, and under-seabed nuclear tests on 

 Novaya Zemlya. Area where the vessel "Kit" was located and presumed location of the 

 sunken submarine "Komsomolets" 



- South-west sector of Novaya 2emlya : The presumed area for the development of a long- 

 range program of nuclear testing. ( See : map of Novaya Zemlya by Greenpeace ) 



Dumping of lowgrade liquid nuclear waste continues in the Barents Sea ( July 1992 ). Less 



dangerous, but should have been dumped in deaper waters ( 3-500 Ci ) 



Dumping of solid wastes continued till 1990. In that year 219 cubic metres solid nuclear wastes 



were dumped, and 6000 cubic metres liquid wastes ( V. Perovsky, Director of the Institute of 



Energy Technology, St. Petersburg ) 



Russia needs storing fascilities for 75.000 cubic metres of nuclear wastes, including many of the 



270 reactors on board nuclear vessels ( Perovsky) 



Every year 1 100 cubic metres of solid nuclear waste is being produced in the Kola area, and about 



6.500 cubic metres of liquid wastes. Only 5-6 % is high grade. The nuclear plant Poljamy Zori is 



the biggest producer of wastes, followed by the naval yards in Poljamy and Severodvinsk 



(Perovsky ) 



Producers of nuclear wastes on the Kola Peninsula ( Perovsky ): 



- 4 operative reactors in power plants 



- 7 nuclear icebreakers 



- 5 nuclear support vessels 



- "Lenin", the first nuclear icebreaker, no longer operative.and the reactors are still on board 

 representing medium active nuclear waste 



-170 nuclear submarines, of which 80 are modem 

 -2 nuclear cruisers 



- Large quantities of accumulated nuclear wastes are stored on board vessels harboured in 

 Murmansk. There is no permanent storage for nuclear wastes. 



Nuclear submarine "Komsomolets" caught fire and sank April 7. 1989. 193 kilometers southwest 



of Bear Island ( Norwegian Arctic ). 42 of its 69 crewmen were killed in the accident. 



Measurements in 1991 showed barely measureable traces of radioactive cesium from its reactors. 



Norwegiaits will take regular samples in the area 



The Soviet Union dumped radioactive waste in the Kara Sea during summer 1991 ( A. 



Mikhailov.top nuclear safety official, Murmansk ) 



Russia must scrap 10 nuclear submarines by 1996, but lack resources to do it ( Vice Admiral 



O.Yerofayev, commander of the Northern Fleet) 



About SO nuclear submarines should be decommissioned between now and the end of the decade 



( Russiao manager of the submarine building yard at Sverodvinsk, the largest in the wortd ) 



US Navy operates 120 nuclear submarines and 15 nuclear surface ships 



CIS Navy - the Northern Fleet- continues dumping of liquid nuclear waste at sea ( June 1992). The 



vessel "Amor" is being used ( A. Kiss, Chairman of the Murmansk Enviroiunental Committee) 



