Group Warns Nuke Fuel Dump May Explode -
Jun 1, 11:47 AM (ET)
By DOUG MELLGREN
OSLO, Norway (AP) - A nuclear waste dump in the Russian
Arctic may be in danger of exploding because of
corrosion caused by salt water in enormous storage tanks,
a Norwegian environmental group warned Friday.
The three tanks are used to store spent nuclear fuel rods
at Andreeva Bay, on the Kola Peninsula of northwestern
Russia, just 28 miles from the Norwegian border,
the Oslo-based Bellona said in a statement.
"We discover now that we are sitting on a powder keg, with
a fuse that is burning, but we don't know how long that
fuse is," said Alexander Nikitin, a former Russian
navy officer who is now one of Bellona's nuclear experts.
The group cited a report from Rosatom, the Russian nuclear
authority, describing the danger. Bellona said the
storage tanks were long believed to be dry inside, but
that recent studies show corrosive salt water is inside
the tanks.
"Ongoing degradation is causing fuel to split into small
granules.
Calculations show that the creation of a homogenous mixture
of these particles with water can cause an uncontrolled
chain reaction," said the group's Norwegian translation
of the report.
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