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Russian Gov’t: 14 Nuclear Reactors Dumped In Ocean — Some Filled With Fuel “Could Reachieve Criticality & Explode” (VIDEO)
Published: September 16th, 2012 at 3:05 pm ET
By ENENews
Title: Russia announces enormous finds of radioactive waste and nuclear reactors in Arctic seas
Source: Bellona
Date: Aug 28, 2012
[...] The Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom confirmed the figures in February of this year during a seminar it jointly held with Bellona in Moscow. [...]
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. [...]
Information that the reactors about the K-27 could reachieve criticality and explode was released at the Bellona-Rosatom seminar in February. [...]
