Soviet Union Dumped Nuclear Submarines, Radioactive Waste Into the Ocean Despite Ban

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Soviet Union Dumped Nuclear Submarines, Radioactive Waste Into the Ocean Despite Ban
By Jack Phillips, Epoch Times   | March 17, 2017 AT 11:00 AM

The Soviet Union had been dumping radioactive waste into the sea for decades by the time the communist bloc collapsed in 1991, even though other nations had abandoned the practice by the early 1970s.

“Most nuclear states had similar practices before the early 1970s,” including the U.S. Navy, said Dr. Eugene Miasnikov, the head of the Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies, according to the Moscow Times.

In the early 1990s, a Russian report detailed how the Soviet Union frequently broke nuclear dumping rules and lied about it. And it was no trivial amount: the Soviets dumped twice the combined total of 12 other nuclear nations.

Continued: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/2233561-soviet-union-dumped-nuclear-submarines-radioactive-waste-into-the-ocean-despite-ban/