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DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
Sat Sep 22, 2012, 12:49 AM Sep 2012

Russia Announces Enormous Finds Of Radioactive Waste And Nuclear Reactors In Arctic Seas

Bellona
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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Russia Announces Enormous Finds Of Radioactive Waste And Nuclear Reactors In Arctic Seas (Original Post) DeSwiss Sep 2012 OP
guess they thought they could hide it iemitsu Sep 2012 #1
And you'll notice the date of this story. DeSwiss Sep 2012 #9
that's what happens iemitsu Sep 2012 #14
Aw, crap! On second thought, how come we're not all glowing in the dark already?! freshwest Sep 2012 #2
Soon Angry Dragon Sep 2012 #3
Just think of the electricity we'll save! Uh... freshwest Sep 2012 #4
That's not what's gonna happen.... Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2012 #6
Thank goodness! Help at last. freshwest Sep 2012 #7
By the time we start to glow...... DeSwiss Sep 2012 #10
You know, that plankton and fish that live on the ocean depths have glowed for centuries. freshwest Sep 2012 #13
This is bad. Really, really bad. defacto7 Sep 2012 #5
Humanity can chalk another one up...... DeSwiss Sep 2012 #11
Most of this has been there since the 1980's. So how long is extinction going to take? Sirveri Sep 2012 #17
Somewhere between 3 minutes and 30000 years defacto7 Sep 2012 #18
The future is history. Gregorian Sep 2012 #8
Indeed. n/t DeSwiss Sep 2012 #12
This message was self-deleted by its author AnotherMcIntosh Sep 2012 #15
That we are, where we are is surely of our own making..... DeSwiss Sep 2012 #16
Holy shit FogerRox Apr 2013 #19
Yes, I'd say that'd be the typical response. DeSwiss Apr 2013 #20
 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
9. And you'll notice the date of this story.
Sat Sep 22, 2012, 01:58 PM
Sep 2012

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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iemitsu

(3,888 posts)
14. that's what happens
Sat Sep 22, 2012, 07:18 PM
Sep 2012

when the same corporation owns the nuke plants and the tv stations (and the whole military industrial complex).

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
10. By the time we start to glow......
Sat Sep 22, 2012, 02:03 PM
Sep 2012

...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.....

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
13. You know, that plankton and fish that live on the ocean depths have glowed for centuries.
Sat Sep 22, 2012, 03:07 PM
Sep 2012

Used to love to ride the ferry in the south and see the plankton glow in the surf created by the bow. Grew up chasing fireflies at night as a kid, trying to figure that out. When we grew up we knew it was a chemical reaction, which took the magic out of it. Some scientists have made glowing cats I think on purpose. Sure, dying a painful, messy death sucks, but what the hell.

Sirveri

(4,517 posts)
17. Most of this has been there since the 1980's. So how long is extinction going to take?
Sun Sep 23, 2012, 06:00 AM
Sep 2012

Don't go diving in the arctic circle off the coast of a former Soviet nuclear testing range.

defacto7

(13,572 posts)
18. Somewhere between 3 minutes and 30000 years
Sun Sep 23, 2012, 02:44 PM
Sep 2012

A step closer is how I put it. I'm talking about survival of our species or the end of it. It would be nice to think we could live long enough as a species to actually evolve to something better instead of dyeing out. Being outlived by cockroaches is not my best hope for humankind.

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DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
16. That we are, where we are is surely of our own making.....
Sun Sep 23, 2012, 03:38 AM
Sep 2012

...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.....

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