Abstract
In the Soviet Union, the public was well aware of the fact that it was the United States and a few other western nations who had pioneered the use of high sea sites for the purposes of radioactive waste disposal. The issue of radioactive waste disposal is probably the most politically charged aspect of the global environmental effort. In the early 1990s, the Russian and international media were filled with sensational reports of the alleged dangers of excessive radioactive waste dumping in the Arctic and Far Eastern seas. The Soviet Union and then Russia dumped liquid radioactive waste (LRAW) into the sea and deposited solid radioactive waste (SRAW) on the seabed from 1959 until 1993. Solid RAW with varying activity levels is generated in day-to-day operation and, most notably, during maintenance or emergency trouble-shooting. Russia stopped LRAW dumping in the Arctic Seas in 1991 and stopped SRAW dumping in 1992. Keywords: Arctic Seas; liquid radioactive waste (LRAW); Russia; solid radioactive waste (SRAW); Soviet Union; United States
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