Europeans, Americans team up to save Baltic Sea

  • 1998-10-15
  • Urmas Maranik
TALLINN - Environmental activists, the Estonian government and the Silmet rare metals plant in the northern town of Sillamae are hoping quick, preventive action will save the Baltic Sea from swallowing gallons of radioactive waste.An American laboratory that cooperates with NATO's scientific and environmental affairs division has drafted a plan to reconstruct the waste management system of the Silmet plant, which threatens the Baltic Sea with radioactive waste.The plant, located in the northern town of Sillamae, near the Gulf of Finland, is one of the main employers for the city of 20,000 p...
 
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