OMRI Daily Digest I, No. 171, 1 Sep 95

[JMUCKERHEIDE@delphi.com]

2 items of interest:

Consider what we're spending on non-existent risks and zero public health and
environmental benefits, then look at what needs action for which there are no
resources ! 

Regards, Jim
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HIGH LEVEL OF RADIATION IN KOLA GULF . . . The level of radioactive
contamination in the Kola Gulf is higher than in the area of the
Norwegian Sea where a Russian nuclear submarine sank, according to the
director of the Kola Research Institute of Marine Life, Professor
Gennadii Matishev. ITAR-TASS on 31 August summarized an interview with
Matishev appearing in Murmanskii vestnik. The Kola Gulf is the narrow
fjord off the Barents Sea on which Murmansk and the Russian naval base
of Severomorsk are located. The report said that nuclear waste once
dumped into the sea had accumulated in hollows on the bottom of the gulf
and posed a serious threat both to marine life and to the local
population. -- Doug Clarke

. . . AND THE URALS NUCLEAR LEGACY. Nuclear waste at the Mayak Chemical
Complex in the Urals is "an ecological bomb for Russia," Izvestiya
warned on 30 August. It said that the water level is rising in one of
three reservoirs built to hold radioactive water and that contaminated
ground water is spreading under the Karachai Lake, into which all
nuclear wastes had been drained and which is now being filled in. A plan
to build a nuclear power station that would use plutonium accumulated at
the Mayak Chemical Complex is on hold owing to lack of funding, the
paper said. -- Penny Morvant