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- Soviet Nuclear Waste Storage On Kola Deplored
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- Foreign Broadcast Information Service, April 4, 1991
- Norway: Soviet Nuclear Storage on Kola Deplored
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- <p>[Helsinki Domestic Service in Finnish 0900 GMT 3 Apr 91]
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- <p> [Excerpt] [Announcer] New information has come to light in
- Norway about Soviet nuclear waste storage on the Kola
- peninsula. According to the Norwegian environment organization
- [Bellona], the Kola peninsula is a ticking time bomb because of
- nuclear waste from the Soviet Navy and outdated nuclear
- submarines. From Oslo, Ulla-Maria Johansen reports:
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- <p> [Johansen] According to the newest information from Bellona,
- the Soviet Union has stored large amounts of nuclear waste from
- high octane nuclear submarines in front of Murmansk on the
- island of Kildin about 130 kilometers from the Norwegian
- border. According to Bellona, the nuclear wastes have been
- placed in corridors dug inside a mountain, from which they can
- escape to the Barents Sea and damage the fish stock in the area.
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- <p> Knut Gussgaard, Norwegian Nuclear Observation Department
- director, and other Norwegian authorities say that they have no
- knowledge of the storage on Kildin island. However, the
- environment organization Bellona claims that the KGB confirmed
- the existence of these stores as early as last January. In
- addition to using Kildin island, it claims that the Soviet
- Union has stored nuclear waste--which is damaging to the
- environment--even closer to the Norwegian border, to
- Kilpyavr. According to Bellona, radioactive waste from nuclear
- icebreakers has been stored here. Bellona proposes forming an
- independent international inspection committee to inspect the
- security of Soviet nuclear waste storage and it also proposes
- cooperation with Soviet authorities. [passage omitted]
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