Kara Sea dump sites monitored
A 85 person research expedition from the Russian Academy of Sciences has been in the Kara Sea to monitor radioactive dump sites. The situation in the area is potentially dangerous for Russia and its neighbours, research leader Mikhail Flint writes.
In the Soviet times, up to 1991, Russia dumped containers with radioactive waste and as many as 13 nuclear reactors removed from submarines. A total of 138 nuclear explosions were conducted in Novaya Zemlya in the period. The detonations were made in the air, on the ground, underground and underwater. The situation in the Kara Sea is potentially dangerous for adjacent countries. Norway has grounds to be constantly worried about these dumps sites. But they pose the greatest danger to Russia. Currents in the eastern Arctic mostly flow from the west to the east, and any pollution spreads along the Russian coastline. But nothing is safe in the water, and other countries may also face the consequences of depreservation of radioactive waste on the Russian shelf, Mikhail Flint, deputy director of the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences writes for RIA Novosti. .
