Re: Russia Allows Nuke Dump Inspection

[Emil Murat <kerrembaev@YAHOO.COM>]

Greetings,





>

Wealthy Norway, the world's second-largest oil 

exporter, for years 

held $2.2 million ready help clean up Andreeva Bay. 

>









a) Is that $2.2 billion?

b) Norway is not as rich as it pretends to be. 

c) Norway a NATO-NON Nuclear member has no idea how

much, in these days, the actual Nuclear clean up does

cost.



Emil.



P.S.



I have NO means to say that other countries has to

clean up neighbors trash.

However, if Norway is offering help, couldn't it be

more realistic...

Two million dollars sure will be enough to clean up

kitties radioactive litter somewhere on the East Cost

of the US.

In Russia labor is cheap but bureaucrats like to have

bread with the caviar on it.





>>>

Russia Allows Nuke Dump Inspection



OSLO, Norway (AP) - Russia's Northern Fleet opened a 

secret nuclear 

waste dump in the Arctic to outside inspection for the



first time 

Monday, after years of pressure from its smaller 

neighbor Norway. 



A Norwegian delegation led by Deputy Foreign Minister 

Espen Barth 

Eide was allowed into the Andreeva Bay base, where 

tons of highly 

radioactive waste are stored roughly 30 miles from the



Russian-

Norwegian frontier. 



``This really is an area we must do something about. 

Very large 

amounts of radioactive waste are stored here under 

very unfavorable 

conditions, and we have seen a facility marked by such



decay that 

there is reason to take action as soon as possible,'' 

Eide said from 

Russia in an interview broadcast by the Norwegian 

state radio network 

NRK. 



Andreeva Bay is considered one of the world's most 

radioactively 

dangerous places. There are more than 100 nuclear 

submarines at 

Russian's Northern Fleet bases on the Kola Peninsula, 

where 

northwestern Russia borders Norway. 



Most are rusted hulks, often with nuclear fuel on 

board, according to 

Bellona, a Norwegian environmental group that 

specializes in the 

issue. 



The waste at Andreeva includes spent nuclear fuel 

cores from atomic 

submarines. A 1996 report by Bellona said about 21,000



spent nuclear 

fuel assemblies are stored here and many of the 

containers are 

leaking. 



NATO-member Norway does not allow nuclear weapons or 

power on its own 

soil in peacetime and has been deeply concerned about 

the nuclear 

waste on the Kola. Eide said radiation detectors 

showed significantly 

elevated levels, without giving the exact readings. 



Wealthy Norway, the world's second-largest oil 

exporter, for years 

held $2.2 million ready help clean up Andreeva Bay. 



However, in six years of negotiations that led to 

Monday's visit, 

Norway has insisted on being allowed to inspect the 

bay, which was 

off-limits because it is near a top-secret submarine 

base. 







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