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Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Russian nuclear waste said dangerous

Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.usNorthern Europe faces a potential disaster of Chernobyl-like dimensions because of deteriorating Russian nuclear waste.

A new report by Rosatom, the Russian government's nuclear authority, said the stockpile of radioactive waste on the Kola Peninsula from discarded and dismantled Soviet submarines is in danger of exploding, according to Norway's Aftenposten.

The stockpile of nuclear reactor fuel rods are in the Andreeva Bay area of the peninsula and are stored in metal pipes placed in large concrete tanks near the sea.

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