Before the crash not far behind: the Arctic ocean floor - tons of nuclear waste

Before the crash not far behind: the Arctic ocean floor - tons of nuclear waste

Before the crash not far behind: the Arctic ocean floor - tons of nuclear waste
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Yet at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean from the Soviet era lies 17 thousand. rusty containers with nuclear waste. The researchers argue that this not only waste, but the shipwreck is a major threat.

How to write "La Repubblica", the researchers argue that hazardous waste dotted the ocean floor should be cleared within the next five years.

The article says that if the Russian and Norwegian environmentalists did not err count of the remaining five, mostly - fifteen-year deal to avoid, as they say, "underwater Chernobyl.

17 thousand. lying under water containers slowly emit radiation, and 19 wrecked nuclear submarine hulls and 14 reactors in the environment can run levels of radiation that would be an inevitable disaster.

The environmental organization Bellona Foundation researchers believe that the world does not have much time for considering how to reduce the risks. Judging from the condition in which the containers and ships, the first incidents can occur in 2020-2030.

Seventies all the nuclear powers did not see anything wrong to bury nuclear waste in the ocean floor. The most active of the Soviet Union did. Russia thus now gets rid of submarine warfare.

One of the most dangerous objects lying at the bottom of the ocean - the submarine K-27, sunk in 1983.

It was installed in power reactors for the third day of sailing on the environment began to allow radioactive materials.

Specialists say that little by little into the environment is permitted radioactive substances carries marine and ocean currents.