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Research now indicates that the enormous tanks holding discarded submarine fuel rods in the Andreeva Bay may explode at any time, creating a nuclear nightmare for Northern Europe. Norway and other Western authorities have argued for years that the stockpile of highly radioactive nuclear waste on the Kola peninsula poses an environmental hazard to the local population and for Norway. New research A new report from Rosatom, the Russian government's highest nuclear authority, shows that there is a grave danger that the stockpile can explode. For Norway the consequences could exceed the fallout from the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, and...

<p>Oct. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Prosecutors in the Russian Far East today charged an official from a state-owned company with trying to sell nuclear waste recovered from ships in the country's Northern Fleet, Agence France-Presse reported.</p> <p>Alexander Tyulyakov, 52, deputy director of Atomflot, tried to sell 1.1 kilograms (2.4 pounds) of radioactive uranium and radium waste that could be used to make a so-called dirty bomb, in which conventional explosives are used to disperse nuclear material, AFP cited an unidentified police spokesman as saying in the city of Murmansk. Atomflot carries out repairs on Russia's nuclear-powered ice-breakers based in the Arctic port.</p>