Arctic Seas Assessment Project

To meet these objectives, the work was organized into five working areas  

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In 1992 the news that the former Soviet Union had, for over three decades, dumped high level radioactive wastes in the shallow waters of the Kara Sea caused widespread concern, especially in countries with Arctic coastlines. The IAEA responded by launching an international study, the International Arctic Seas Assessment Project (lASAP), in order to assess the potential health and environmental implications of the dumping and to examine the feasibility of remedial actions related to the dumped wastes. 

SJOEBLOM, K.L., LINSLEY, G., "IAEA programmes relevant to the radioactive waste dumped in the Arctic Seas Part 1. International Arctic Seas Assessment Project (lASAP)," in Environmental Radioactivity in the Arctic and Antarctic (P. Strand, E. Holm, Eds.), Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Environmental Radioactivity in the Arctic and Antarctic, 0ster s, Norway (1993), 89-92. 

INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY, Highlights of activities, Vienna (1994). SJOEBLOM, K.-L., LINSLEY, G., International arctic seas assessment project lASAP (1993-1996). Conf. on Radioactivity and Environmental Security in the Oceans New Research and Policy Priorities in the Arctic and North Atlantic, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 1993 June 7-9 (1993). 

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