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The first chapter of this volume, written by Drs. Lystsov and Khlopkin, identified the major problems facing Russia today regarding the safe disposition of radioactive wastes produced by the operations and decommissioning of Russian nuclear submarines in the Arctic North. Many of the remaining chapters then discuss existing procedures and technologies that can be applied to the removal, processing, storage, and transport of spent nuclear fuel and liquid and solid radioactive wastes. These analyses come after many studies identifying the sites and extent of contamination in the region. [5,6,7,9] One of the conclusions reached at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop in Kirkenes, from which these papers are taken, was that many of the technologies already exist to resolve current radioactive waste problems in the Arctic North.
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Kirk, E.J. (1997). Integration of Technical Projects with Larger Political and Economic Contexts. In: Kirk, E.J. (eds) Decommissioned Submarines in the Russian Northwest. NATO ASI Series, vol 32. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5618-9_14
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