Radionuclides in the Arctic seas from the former Soviet Union: Potential health and ecological risks

• Main Authors: Layton, D W, Edson, R, Varela, M, Napier, B
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: 22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; 21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; 07 ISOTOPES AND RADIATION SOURCES; 61 RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY; ARCTIC REGIONS; COASTAL WATERS; PACIFIC OCEAN; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; CONTAMINATION; STRONTIUM 90; NUCLEAR SHIPS; SHIP PROPULSION REACTORS; THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS; RADIATION DOSES; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Kamchatka Peninsula; Kara Sea; Okhotsk; Pacific; Icebreaker; Kamchatka; Novaya Zemlya; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/757029; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/757029; https://doi.org/10.2172/757029

The primary goal of the assessment reported here is to evaluate the health and environmental threat to coastal Alaska posed by radioactive-waste dumping in the Arctic and Northwest Pacific Oceans by the FSU. In particular, the FSU discarded 16 nuclear reactors from submarines and an icebreaker in th...