Posted on 02/07/2010 12:39:24 AM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
The former commander of the Russian navy's Baltic fleet on Friday denied Swedish media reports that Russia dumped radioactive and chemical waste into Swedish waters in the Baltic Sea in the early 1990s. "This is complete nonsense and a clear provocation, propagated at an international level," Admiral Vladimir Yegorov, who commanded the Baltic fleet from 1991 to 2000, told the Interfax news agency.
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt on Thursday called for the previous governments to explain a television report that Russia dumped chemical weapons and radioactive waste off the shores of a Swedish island in the Baltic Sea.
According to the television report on the SVT network on Wednesday, the waste dumped in Swedish waters between 1991 and 1994 came from the giant Karosta naval base in the Latvian port city of Liepaja.
"The naval forces that were pulling out of the Liepaja naval base in Latvia in the early 1990s did not have chemical weapons, radioactive materials and waste," Yegorov insisted.
He added that the Russian naval forces were monitored by Latvia as they pulled out of the port and that the naval command acted "strictly within the framework of Russian and Latvian agreements."
A summit of heads of state of countries bordering the Baltic Sea was to take place in Helsinki Wednesday to try to solve the problems of one of the world's most polluted seas.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was due to attend.
(Excerpt) Read more at nuclearpowerdaily.com ...
Until 1990, the Soviet Navy routinely dumped radioactive waste in Far Eastern and Arctic waters. There were 13 areas of nuclear waste dumps in Arctic seas and 10 areas off-shore in the Russian Far East.The Russian navy simply sank 57 vessels filled with nuclear waste. Sixteen decommissioned reactors were also sent to the deep, including six with unloaded fuel.
Are the Russians crazy?
Waiter... why does the fish you just served have 4 eyes?
Waiter... why does the fish you just served have 4 eyes?
Worse ... they’re Russian.
Only the leaders.
More like irresponsible
The last known incident of dumping at sea by the Russian Navy occurred in 1993, when approximately 900 tons of liquid radioactive waste were dumped into the Sea of Japan.
ain’t nuclear power great? enter the apologists.
No matter the down side, I am still 100 percent support both military and civilian nuclear power.
If God had wanted us to have nuclear power, He would have made Uranium.
:-\
I found a land-based nuclear reactor—Sellafield— along the Irish Sea with similar "easy" disposals.
http://www.corecumbria.co.uk/tour/irishsea.htm
Sellafield has a rather notorious operational history. Its original name was Winscale. There was a huge fire in the reactor pile and it released a massive amounts of radiation in the atmosphere.The release of radiation by the Windscale fire was greatly exceeded by the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, but the fire has been described as the worst reactor accident until Three Mile Island in 1979. The British Government changed its name to Sellafield.
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