Nuclear Waste Storage and Climate Change: What should we expect?

... shore line bases have been in catastrophic condition for many years, the most notorious example being the base in Andreeva bay in Murmansk oblast . There have been serious leaks from these bases in the past and the situation will only be worsened by climate change. Rosatom is now working to rebuild some naval shore bases and to close the bases which are beyond their service life. The USSR also scuttled a variety of nuclear submarines, reactors and containers with radioactive waste in the Kara sea and the Pacific ...