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Testimony fc ir the Hearing before the 



SENATE SELECT C OMMITTEE ON INTEIilGENCE 



Radioactive and Other Snvironmental Threats to the Arctic 

 Resulting frbm Past Soviet Activities 



lil August 1992 



Dr. 

 Arting Vice President 



Luis M. Proenza 



tor Academic Affairs and Research 



Unl^ ''ersity of Alaska 



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A FRA^^ EWORK FOR ACTION 



Mr. Chairman, we thank you for this opportunity to outline a 

 fraiaework for action in regard to the issue before you today. I am 

 jolr ed by four colleagues vrhich represent the Institute of Nuclear 

 Safijty of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Padflc Northwest 

 Latjoratorles • Battelle, ac(d the University of Alaska in a Joint 



My remarks are intended simply as an 

 those of my colleagues. 



apE roach to the problem, 

 intioductory background to 



Alaska, the last frontier 

 experience from natural 

 Anchorage eardiquake, the 

 the massive oil spill of 

 eruption. It now has the 

 noithem coast in the form 

 Sov let Union and from othe : 



In 

 to 

 s 



3f the U.S., has suffered and gained 

 disasters in modem times: the 1964 

 967 Fairbanks flood, and, more recently, 

 Exxon Valdez and the Mt. Redoubt 

 potential for another assault along Its 

 of pollution migrating from the former 

 countries. 



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have 

 the 

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 As 



L989, the University of .Uaska was able to respond within hours 

 •he Exxon Valdez oil spill, and we are prepared to respond in a 

 [ilar and timely fashion now. We have many of the experts and 

 mqch of the experience necessary to accomplish this mission, and 

 established, working jelationshlps with colleagues throughout 

 drcumpolir" north, as well as collaborative agreements and 

 " in conjunction wltl l virtually every federal and state agency, 

 such, our university ser^'es both as a national resource for Arctic 

 ressarch and as a global ot seryatory. The University of Alaska has 



fac lities 



