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<text>
<title>
Norwegians Search for 'Secret Dumps' in Arctic
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Foreign Broadcast Information Service, June 5, 1992
Arms Control: Norwegians Search for 'Secret Dumps' in Arctic
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<p>[From the "Novosti" newscast. Moscow Teleradiokompaniya
Ostankino Television First Program Network in Russian 1700 GMT
29 May 92]
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<p> [Text] At the meeting of the world's seven industrially
developed countries in Munich in July it has been decided to
examine the question of closing down the 26 dangerous reactors
of the Chernobyl type. Sources of radiation are a serious worry
to foreign specialists. The results of some investigations are
very unexpected.
</p>
<p> [Correspondent M. Osokin] Norwegian specialists are starting
to look for possible sources of radiation in the Arctic. It is
reported from Oslo that it has been decided to begin by
investigating the area near the sunken Soviet submarine,
Komsomolets, which has given rise to contradictory reports.
</p>
<p> Our military has stated that the results of measurements
near the submarine are within the limits of the background
radiation. But the Norwegians report that last year their
instruments recorded traces of radioactive cesium from the hull
of the submarine. They say that the traces are very weak but
they do not indicate a leak and this should be studied.
</p>
<p> A report was published in Oslo recently on the results of
last year's studies. AP has reported that, judging from this
report, the submarine's reactor is no longer sealed. Now new
samples of water will be taken near the hull of the Komsomolets
in order to get a clearer picture.
</p>
<p> Overall, the Norwegians plan this summer to compile a map of
those regions of the Arctic where they suspect that there are
secret dumps of Soviet nuclear waste. In the course of the
preparatory work 14 sites have been selected for checking where
Norwegian specialists fear there may be not only radioactive
burial sites but also reactors and possibly whole submarines
sunk in the Barents and Karsk Seas.
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