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This was stated by the head of the expedition that worked on board the Russian research vessel “Ivan Petrov” Alexander Nikitin.
The expedition included Russian and Norwegian researchers as well as IAEA experts.
This was the fourth such expedition, while the first three were conducted between 1992 and 1994.
Before 1992, the Kara Sea was the key location where hard radioactive waste from the Soviet nuclear submarines was drowned.
TASS
Two orphaned Russian siblings Kelly and Cloe, known in Russia as Anastasia and Svetlana Klimov, have been temporarily placed with a new US foster family, after years of abuse by their adoptive American parents.
The power of Oklahoma tornado that ripped through the state causing massive damage to property and killing dozens in its way has received a top-of-the-scale rating of EF-5 on the Fujita scale. The energy released by the twister was eight times greater than that of the Hiroshima A-bomb, experts say.
US President Barack Obama has allegedly decided to hand over part of the CIA’s drone program to the Pentagon. The administration plans to gradually shift responsibility in stages, thereby providing greater congressional oversight on the use of drones.
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he will contest the disqualification of his ally Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei from next month's presidential poll. Mr Mashaei and ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani have been excluded by the Guardian Council.
The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee has passed a bill making it possible for the Obama administration to send weapons to rebels fighting Syria’s government. At the same time lawmakers from both parties have indicated that if the bill is approved, no one will be able to guarantee weapons will not end up in wrong hands, meaning fighters linked to al Qaeda.
Syria's Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al-Miqdad is coming to Moscow Wednesday to meet with Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, Arab media report.
Vermont this week became the fourth state to legalize the right to die, passing a law to allow physicians to prescribe medically, mentally competent people who are terminally ill drugs that will allow that to achieve a peaceful death.
US President Barack Obama has allegedly decided to hand over part of the CIA’s drone program to the Pentagon. The administration plans to gradually shift responsibility in stages, thereby providing greater congressional oversight on the use of drones.
An independent anti-conflict organization has released a report claiming that despite certain successes, the US drone policy should not be regarded as a reliable and long-term tool to oust militant groups out of Pakistan’s tribal regions.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev still thinks that the government should withdraw from the Russian media market, primarily, in the regions.
Russia has offered the United Nations its help in training peacekeepers and said it is ready to boost its presence in peacekeeping missions.
Russia's joining the World Trade Organization should teach it how to manage production costs, Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda.
The US remains the world’s biggest sovereign debtor. In 2014, its debt is expected to amount to 76% of the annual GDP. By 2018, the figure is likely to go down, but only slightly – to approximately 71% of the GDP.
The US authorities are going to enforce a ban on gold sales to Iran as part of extra unilateral sanctions against the country from July 1. The sanctions suggest a ban on selling gold and other precious metals to private and state-run Iranian companies, as well as to individuals holding Iranian citizenship.
Bitcoin, the digital cryptocurrency, is starting to attract the attention of the US government. It seems that the American authorities would like to destroy the digital currency before it could become a widespread alternative to the US dollar.
David Cameron's woes are continuing this week with plans to legalize same-sex marriage to be debated in Parliament today and tomorrow. The issue is hugely divisive, not least within the Tory Party which seems to have been in open rebellion in the last couple of weeks over everything from the E.U. to the next election. And on Sunday 34 current and former local party chairmen delivered a letter to Downing Street opposing the policy as "flawed, un-Conservative and costing us dearly in votes and membership". Gay marriage is causing a heated row across the political and public spheres.
A white-tailed deer crashed through the windshield of a public bus in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It was filmed by a surveillance camera. (VIDEO)
More than 400 companies from 14 countries are exhibiting their achievements in the field of ensuring security at the ongoing international Integrated Safety & Security Exhibition – 2013, in Moscow on May 21- 24. Products by Russian companies prove that Russia has successfully integrated itself into the security safeguards industry, - a quickly developing segment of the world economy.
Stressful occupations could keep some women single, as reported by new research. Higher amounts of cortisol in women could spell out bad news for them in the love department. Having this rate of cortisol makes men believe their face is less attractive.
Suicide, according to new data published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, can spread to teens that have been exposed to it either on a personal or public level. Having a classmate die from taking their own life, can cause many students to think more suicidal thoughts whether they knew the student or not, as stated by researchers.
Russia may test-launch new Angara satellite-carrier rocket in 2013 
