SUBCOMMITTEE CHAIR

Mr ZAPPIA: Thank you. Dr Green : I don't have anything to add. Perhaps Tim Deere-Jones might. Mr Deere-Jones : I don't have much to add on the battle issue, but, as mentioned by previous speakers, there have been a number of submarines sunk and lost on the seabed. I have a particular watching brief on the Arctic radioactivity, and I can confirm that some of the Russian submarines that have been lost, complete with their reactors, are being constantly monitored by Norwegian observers. I was only the other day listening to a Norwegian observer talking about—I can't remember which number it is now, but one of the submarines; they all have AK numbers—one of the submarines and they're saying, 'We are getting to the stage where the reactor casing of that lost submarine is beginning to show signs of decay and corrosion.' They are watching it very carefully because they expect in the relatively near future, the next decade or so, to see detectable and significant leaks coming from that reactor and it's spent fuel because the reactor containment compartment has finally begun to corrode. Again, I'm a bit vague, but I think there are studies from maybe the US about the radioactivity impact, but if somebody would like to send me an email—I expect you can find my email address—and repeat that question, I can go back through my archive and see if I can find that information for them.