The World - News from Aug. 30, 1985

A Soviet nuclear waste dump is leaking radiation that has killed at least one worker, Swedish radio reported. A Soviet engineer who recently defected to Sweden was quoted as saying that spent fuel from nuclear submarines is handled and stored carelessly at a site near the Estonian capital, Tallinn. He said waste is brought to the site in an ordinary minibus and that at least one driver has died of radiation exposure during the last decade. “Nobody in the West can imagine the carelessness with which they handle radioactive waste,” the engineer said.