MORE NUCLEAR MATERIALS STOLEN AND DUMPED.

Publication: Monitor Volume: 1 Issue: 27

Russian prosecutors have charged ten employees of the “Elektropribor” enterprise with stealing radioactive isotopes worth 48 million rubles, Moskovsky komsomolets reported June 6. But a bigger problem may come from uncontrolled dumping of nuclear materials by the Russian military. Kommersant-Daily said June 6 that an Academy of Sciences study found that the Russian navy alone currently dumps some 20,000 cubic meters of radioactive liquids and 6,000 tons of radioactive solid wastes into the oceans.

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