World IN BRIEF : SOVIET UNION : Lawmaker Reports Nuclear Dumping
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The Soviet Union dumped radioactive waste in leaky containers into shallow waters off its north coast for decades while publicly claiming the toxic material was being stored safely on land, a Soviet lawmaker said. He said the radioactive waste included the damaged reactor core from the nuclear-powered icebreaker Lenin, which suffered a meltdown in 1966 or 1967. Andrei Zolotkov, a legislator from the northern port of Murmansk, addressed a Moscow seminar organized by the environmental group Greenpeace.
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