Richard
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Post by Richard on Aug 31, 2012 11:32:10 GMT -5
www.bellona.org/articles/articles_2012/Russia_reveals_dumps"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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Lily
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Post by Lily on Aug 31, 2012 16:50:22 GMT -5
www.bellona.org/articles/articles_2012/Russia_reveals_dumps"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." There are no words fit to print that describe how furious this makes me, so I'll have to make do with "bloody awful." Crikey, this planet is all we've got, and to desecrate it like this is unconscionable. No wonder everything is totally poisoned; whole species are dying off; the air isn't fit to breathe; and climate change is creating many negative impacts, including serious food shortages. Yet, unbelievable though it may seem, there are still some who insist that all this is part of the "natural cycle" and has nothing to do with human activity.
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