Revision of data on the activity of wastes dumped in the arctic seas

摘要

The physical meaning of the term "strontium unit," which was used in the Northern and Pacific-Ocean fleets of the Soviet Union the 1970s-1980s, is explained. It is shown that the strontium unit is the analog of a biological hazard index. Estimates are made of the real activity of the wastes dumped in the KARA Sea and in the bays of Novaya Zemlya in 1964-1991 on the basis of the data on the typical radionuclide composition of solid radioactive wastes. 1 figure, 3 references.