All the true believers here are harping on the Fukushima Japanese nuclear plant accident that occurred as a result of the 2011 tsunami. Little wonder that none of these true believers have anything to say at all about a true nuclear atrocity, because it would cast some doubt on their favorite form of government.
NYT: Soviet Nuclear Dumps Disclosed
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Of possibly greater concern [than the nuclear reactors disposed in the ocean] is the radioactive waste dumped at sea. Russian authorities told Dr. Charles Hollister [of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution] that 11,000 to 17,000 waste containers, holding 61,407 curies of radioactivity, were dumped off Novaya Zemlya from 1964 to 1990. In addition, 165,000 cubic meters of liquid waste were dumped in the Barents Sea west of Novaya Zemlaya from 1961 to 1990. For comparison, the Chernobyl accident released about 86,000,000 curies of radioactivity.
[In addition], Dr. Hollister reckons the amount of nuclear material within some of the [four Soviet submarines lost at sea] at seven times that in the ill-fated Chernobyl reactor.
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Keep in mind that Fukushima is estimated to have released about 1/10th as much as Chernobyl did.
And here's another tidbit about how wonderfully the anti-capitalists performed:
CNN Fortune: THE NEW SOVIET THREAT: POLLUTION After 74 years of Communist mismanagement, the former Soviet Union is an environmental menace to the world. The cleanup will cost billions -- and guess who pays.
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Last year [1991], a Russian scientist from Murmansk disclosed that contrary to official denials, the Soviet navy had been dumping nuclear waste in the Barents Sea for nearly 30 years. The dumping site, he claimed, was several hundred miles from the Norwegian coast in a known fishing area. Even worse, the barrels of nuclear waste at first floated. So what did the Russians do? They punctured the protective containers, apparently so the highly toxic barrels of radioactive waste would fill with sea water and sink.
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Where is y'alls concern about this, true believers?