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Three women bearing shunpoo and other household ttema wait ior customers yesterday In Moscow, where 

 shortages at state-owned stores are prodding residents to do their shopping with sidewalk entreprenenrs. 



Soviets reported to hkye dumped 

 nuclear waste in arctic waters 



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LONDON - British television reported yesterday 

 that thousands of tons of nndear waste have been seoet- 

 ly dumped in Roisian arctie waters for more than 20 

 yean, abating a "ticldng time bomb' threatening the 

 whole of Europe. 

 TudepeodenfTeleviaionrNew* quote3~a~lbmian nu- 



clear expert, Andrei ZoloUcov, u saying the sea off the 

 northern coast of Russia had been used as a n^Jor 

 dumping ground for radloaetiTe waste for years. 



Zolotkov said the KGB allowed him to see papcn 

 showing that lifiOO containen of nudear waste were ' 

 dumped over S yesii in the Ksra Sea in the Russian 



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" .The waste inisl^om Soviet nudesr submarines tuA 

 icebreakers and indaded spent lesctor (bei and weap- . 

 ons-grade plutonumT;. ' - - 



'AH the docmnents I nad are kept on one of the 

 ships." ZolotkoT to M TTtf * Chaaael 4 News from Mur- 

 mansk. ''". ^ 



"According to the docaBenta,'l7,000 containen wen 

 dumped,' be added. . 



Then wen 10 n^jor dumping grounds in the Kan 

 Sea, most to the east of the island of Novaya Zemlya, the 

 program said. % . 



It said submarines with nudear fuel sboard wen se- 



Joshua Handler of 



Greenpeace called it a 'classic 



case of a ticldng time bomb' 



that poses a serious threat to 



i aU Europe. 



cietly sunk otbhore. Sailon were toU to shoot drums 

 containing WBst*^with rifles until the containen sank to 

 thesesbed. ' f 



. THie metal ajver protecting the Aid . . i wiD deterio- 

 rate in the marine environment. The water wiD reach the 

 (bd • ■ ■ it is qoife s dsngerous situation," Zdotkov said. 

 . Joshua Hanoler of the environmental group Green- 

 pesee told ITN?^ ms *s dasde ease of s ticking time 

 bomb" that pos£ a serious threat to all Europe. Without 

 action, rsdiosctanty oould enter the food chain and for 

 an we know it ys already occurred," he said. 



Hie Russian navy hss to start decommissioning 30 

 nudear sabmasmes soon, work wliich in the past led to 

 sn explosion aw 10 desths, the program said. 



ITN Qroed fat arctic nuclear wsste dump containing 

 cobslt and ce$iifb guarded by just one man and a dog. 



