For more than three decades, Russia has been burdened with the remains of the Soviet nuclear project: a vast, sprawling, largely invisible inheritance of contaminated territories, derelict facilities, spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste. The nuclear legacy is a dangerous and extraordinarily expensive accumulation of hazards that still sits along the country’s Arctic coastlines, forests and former naval bases. It threatens the well-being of current and future generations and continues to impose financial and technological burdens on a government that has rarely been willing to confront its full scale.
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