Bellona present new report on the nuclear and radiation threats in the Russian Arctic

Download the new report "The nuclear legacy of the Russian Arctic": https://bellona.org/publication/nucle...

The biography of Alexandr Nikitin https://bellona.org/employee/aleksand...

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00:00:00 Please stand by

00:05:07 Introduction by Bellona's nuclear advisor Dmitry Gorchakov
00:06:40 What is nuclear legacy
00:09:35 The list of the dangerous objects
00:18:14 Assessment of the cost and timing of lifting facilities
00:21:00 Andreeva Bay facility, where a radiation accident occurred 35 years ago
00:26:10 Object in Andreeva Bay
00:28:00 Gremikha and Saida
00:36:08 Conclusion. What Bellona did

00:37:46 Questions and answers

00:38:14 The Northern Sea Route. Threats from nuclear icebreakers
00:44:30 Dumping of radioactive waste in the Barents Sea
00:46:43 Threat from the K-278 Komsomolets
00:50:11 A possible environmental impact of Submarine K-27
00:54:52 On the prospects for international cooperation in the Arctic
00:56:30 The role of non-Arctic States such as France and Germany
00:59:13 Why did the container ship "Rossita" entered Gremikha
01:01:37 Nuclear icebreakers and global warming
01:03:38 How much liquid radioactive waste has been dumped into the seas
01:07:32 Discussion on radioactive waste
01:08:29 Can Rosatom raise sunked nuclear objects at its own expense
01:13:18 Departure of foreign participants from environmental projects

On May 14th the nuclear advisors of The Bellona Environmental Transparency Center hosted an online event to present new report on the nuclear and radiation threats in the Russian Arctic.

The Soviet nuclear legacy on the North-West of Russia includes the radionuclide-contaminated buildings of the former military base at Andreeva Bay, spent nuclear fuel from nuclear submarines and the status of sunken nuclear and radiation-hazardous objects at the bottom of the Arctic seas.

“As Russian money goes to war instead of environmental protection, the Russian Arctic remains a radiation threat”, - claims Bellona’s nuclear advisor and the author of the report Alexander Nikitin.

The greatest threat to the environment is the nuclear submarine K-27, whose reactors are loaded with highly enriched nuclear fuel. It was scuttled decades ago off the coast of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, where today the Russian Ministry of Defense is testing new weapons.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has stopped international cooperation to eliminate nuclear and radiation threats in this region. Before the war, Norway, with the support of a number of European countries, led large-scale efforts to rid the region of the Soviet nuclear legacy.