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The January 1973 issue of Courier, the UNESCO journal, provided information on the ten main pollutants of our planet. The following was extracted from the information provided on the first of these pollutants, radiation: “Radiation arises from atomic weapons testing and the operations of nuclear-powered ships and vessels, in the production of nuclear fuels and arms manufacture [emphasis added]. Exceeding the permissible doses may lead to malignant neoplasms and genetic mutations.”
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For descriptions of Pacific Fleet problems and local anti-nuclear activism see: Joshua Handler, “Preliminary Report on: Greenpeace Visit to Vladivostok and Areas Around the Chazhma Bay and Bolshoi Kamen Submarine Repair and Refuelling Facilities, 9–19 October 1991,” (Washington, D.C.: Greenpeace, 6 November 1991);
Joshua Handler, “Trip Report: Greenpeace Visit to Moscow and Russian Far East July — November 1992, Subject: Russian Navy Nuclear Submarine Safety, Construction, Defense Conversion, Decommissioning, and Nuclear Waste Disposal Problems,” (Washington, D.C.: Greenpeace, 15 February 1993);
Joshua Handler, “Greenpeace Trip Report. Subject: Radioactive Waste Situation in the Russian Pacific Fleet, Nuclear Waste Disposal Problems, Submarine Decommissioning, Submarine Safety, and Security of Naval Fuel,” (Moscow/Washington, D.C.: Greenpeace 27 October 1994), p. 29;
Joshua Handler, “No Sleep in the Deep for Russian Subs,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, April 1993.
Zolotkov, Andrei A. (September 1991) “On the Dumping of Radioactive Waste at Sea Near Novaya Zemlia,” paper presented at Greenpeace Nuclear Free Seas Campaign/Russian Information Agency Seminar Violent Peace — Deadly Legacy, Moscow.
Yemelanenkov, Alexander F. (4 February 1992) “The Secret Logbook or the Second Discovery of the Novaya Zemlia Archipelago,” Sobesednik, Moscow.
Yablokov, Alexei V. et al. (February 1993) Facts and Problems Connected with the Disposal of Radioactive Waste in the Seas Adjacent to Our Territory, Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, Moscow; translated and reproduced by the Joint Publications Research Service, Environmental Issues, “Russian Federation State Report on Sea Burial of Radioactive Wastes,” JPRS-TEN-93 005-L, 17 June 1993, 46 pages. The Commission was comprised of representatives of the Russian Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Public Health, the Ministry of Atomic Energy, the Committee for the Supervision of Nuclear and Radiation Safety, the Committee for the Supervision of Sanitary Engineering and Epidemiological Monitoring, and other ministries and departments, as well as representatives of the administrations of Russia’s Northern and Far Eastern regions.
Information on Northern Fleet nuclear submarine bases is primarily drawn from: Joshua Handler, “The Northern Fleet’s Nuclear Submarine Bases,” Jane’s Intelligence Review, December 1993, pp. 551–556.
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Handler, J. (1996). NGOs and the Nuclear Navy. In: Kirk, E.J. (eds) Assessing the Risks of Nuclear and Chemical Contamination in the former Soviet Union. NATO ASI Series, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1645-6_8
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