“Arctic Chernobyl”: There are approximately 17,000 containers of nuclear waste, 19 rusting Soviet nuclear ships and 14 nuclear reactors lying at the bottom of the Kara Sea in Russia’s Arctic territories that are gradually decaying, according to a member of a Norwegian watchdog group and journalist at the Barents Observer, Thomas Nilsen. If they are left to decay, this “toxic boneyard” could lead to “an Arctic underwater Chernobyl, played out in slow motion,” he claims. The Moscow Times