Russia Announces Enormous Finds Of Radioactive Waste And Nuclear Reactors In Arctic Seas
Charles Digges
28/08-2012
Enormous quantities of decommissioned Russian nuclear reactors and radioactive waste were dumped into the Kara Sea in the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia over a course of decades, according to documents given to Norwegian officials by Russian authorities and published in Norwegian media.
Bellona had received in 2011 a draft of a similar report prepared for Russia’s Gossoviet, the State Council, for presentation at a meeting presided over by then-president Dmitry Medvedev on Russian environmental security.
The Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom confirmed the figures in February of this year during a seminar it jointly held with Bellona in Moscow. Bellona is alarmed by the extent of the dumped Soviet waste, which is far greater than was previously known – not only to Bellona, but also to the Russian authorities themselves.
The catalogue of waste dumped at sea by the Soviets, according to documents seen by Bellona, and which were today released by the Norwegian daily Aftenposten, includes some 17,000 containers of radioactive waste, 19 ships containing radioactive waste, 14 nuclear reactors, including five that still contain spent nuclear fuel; 735 other pieces of radiactively contaminated heavy machinery, and the K-27 nuclear submarine with its two reactors loaded with nuclear fuel.
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It's been out there for almost a month now and not a single MSM outlet has picked it up. These reports about the nuclear waste were given to the government of Norway from the Russian government, so there's no question of their authenticity. I suspect that their Masters (the owners of the MSM) have told them to report nothing but ''happy'' news about nuclear power.
- If they know what's good for them......
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...we're dead and just don't know it. But the fish are starting to glow.
- I guess we'll glow if we're having the tuna.....
...to our own ignorance and stupidity.
...and yet knowing our history, it isn't too difficult to see how we have ended up here.
Alternately, I can think of only two scenarios wherein the owners of our current energy paradigm would relinquish their positions. One is other-worldly, and the other is decidedly of this world and would surely end in our destruction. The superstructure of the Police State already in-place, its realization would be the result of further inaction.
- Even still, for a new paradigm to take place, it will require a clean slate. Fasten your safety-belt.....
- Sometimes a ''DAYUM!'', but Holy Shit is good.
It never stops:
Legacy Danger: Old Nuclear Waste Found in English Channel - SPIEGEL ONLINE - April 12, 2013
[link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civilian_nuclear_accidents|
List of civilian nuclear accidents]
[link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accidents|
List of military nuclear accidents]
