Waste Safety Section International Atomic Energy Agency
In 1993 in response to the disclosure that the former Soviet Union had dumped radioactive wastes in the Arctic Seas for more than thirty years, the IAEA set up the International Arctic Seas Assessment Project (IASAP) in order to assess the radiological consequences to human beings and to the environ...
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| Summary: | In 1993 in response to the disclosure that the former Soviet Union had dumped radioactive wastes in the Arctic Seas for more than thirty years, the IAEA set up the International Arctic Seas Assessment Project (IASAP) in order to assess the radiological consequences to human beings and to the environment associated with the radioactive wastes dumped, and to recommend possible remedial actions. According to the White Book of the President of Russia, published in 1993, the total amount of radioactive waste dumped in Arctic Seas was estimated to be approximately 90 PBq at the time of dumping. The dumped items included six nuclear submarine reactors containing spent fuel; a shielding assembly from an icebreaker reactor containing spent fuel; ten nuclear reactors without fuel; and solid and liquid low level waste. The nuclear reactors were dumped in the shallow fjords of Novaya Zemlya and in the Kara Sea. Within the framework of IASAP, the Modelling and Assessment Working Group was established with the objectives of modelling the environmental dispersal and transport of nuclides to be potentially released from the dumped objects and of assessing the associated radiological impact on man and biota. The work of the group was organised by means of an |
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