Nuclear security in jeopardy as Russia kicked out of G8

The Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Material of Mass Destruction is a $20 billion initiative by the G8 countries. Russia and several former Soviet republics, including Ukraine, have received the major part of the funding proven to pave the way for safer nuclear installations.

At Russia’s Kola Peninsula and in Severodvinsk outside Arkhangelsk, some 130 nuclear powered submarines are safely decommissioned.

Their highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel are for the most reloaded to new containers avoiding leakages to the marine Barents ecosystems. A huge storage facility for submarine reactor compartments is built in Saida Bay.

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