Barents Sea

["dkosloff1" <dkosloff1@email.msn.com>]

The message below is on the Bellona website.  Does anyone have any insight
into the source of activity in the Barents Sea?  For instance, why would the
reprocessing plants have more impact than the Techa River or the past sea
disposal of radioactive waste by the Soviet navy.

"The Barents Sea, is today one of the cleanest, and at the same time, most
vulnerable ocean-areas in the world. Measurements the last years show that
the level of radioactivity up to 1 becquerel (Bq) per kilogram fish, this is
far lower than, for instance, the Baltic Sea where levels is more than 10 Bq
per kilogram. The radioactivity that can be traced has been transported to
the Barents Sea there by the Gulf stream, mainly from the two European
reprocessing-plants, Sellafield in England and Le Hague in France."



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