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field and the Lya-aga (the British and French spent nuclear fuel reprocessing factories, 

 respectively) have been dumped in enormous quantities into the ocean for many tens of years 

 along extended pipelines from the sea coast and such waste is being discovered throughout the 

 seas in the northern Atlantic and the Kara Sea. 



It would be usefiil, as an extension and development of Russian-American-Norweigian 

 agreements to prevent radwaste disposal in the Arctic, to develop a special program of 

 international assistance for Russia to resolve the problems associated with organizing safe storage 

 of the enormous quantity (estimated at over 40 million curie of radwaste from the Soviet Navy 

 operating in the Muransk region (the problem of organizing safe storage of spent nuclear fuel 

 from nuclear submarines and the problem of salvaging nuclear submarines and storing the 

 submarine reactors). However, for political reasons, this program can only be developed after 

 appropriate resolution at the presidential level between our countries. 



Chairman of the Inter-Govemmentai Commission 

 on Environmental Security 

 Russian Committee on Security 



{Professor A. Yablokov) 

 Moscow, 4 December 1995 



