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The Russian military allegedly dumped nuclear waste into the Baltic Sea in the early 1990s, according to a report on Swedish television.
Radioactive material from a military base in Latvia is thought to have been thrown into Swedish waters.
For many the biggest shock is that the Swedish government may have known at the time and done nothing about it.
The partly enclosed Baltic Sea is known as one of the most polluted seas in the world.
But now it seems it was also used as a dumping ground for Russian nuclear waste and chemical weapons.
According to a report on Swedish television, Russian boats sailed out at night, to dump barrels of radioactive material, from a military base in Latvia, into Swedish waters.
And even though the Swedish government at the time reportedly knew this, no action was taken to find the waste.
The current government in Stockholm now wants the politicians, who were then in charge, to explain why they did nothing to find the barrels.
The Baltic Sea is semi-enclosed, so it takes a long time to flush out toxins. This makes it particularly vulnerable to pollution.
And after years of untreated waste from Russia’s cities and heavy industries, scientists say that the Baltic is in danger of becoming a dead sea.
Next week high-ranking politicians from those countries bordering the Baltic, including Russia, are due to attend a summit in Helsinki to discuss how to save it.
But if reports about Soviet nuclear waste being dumped prove true, then Russia will have even more accusations of pollution to answer.

The Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that the solution is possible and within reach of the will lead to a new round of talks to reunify Cyprus.
Ban said after arriving in Larnaca for talks with leaders of Greek Cyprus and Turkey on Monday.
He said the agreement required courage, flexibility and vision and spirit of compromise .
Rival Cypriot leaders are locked in peace talks for the past 16 months.
It breaks the illusion that the Cyprus problem is easily solved and what problems, Mr. Ban told reporters.
At the same time, I am convinced that a solution is possible and feasible, he added.
He will meet with the Greek leader Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot Mehmet Ali Talat on Monday.
Peace talks were launched with much optimism and fanfare in September 2008 for life.
Time but progress is slow and hard to find a solution, says the correspondent of the BBC Jonny Dymond.
While the agreement appears next to a folder – Governance – others, such as land and property, not to mention safety, it seems impossible, says our correspondent.
There is also concern that the talks could be put on hold when Mehmet Ali Talat, who is considered moderate, loses lead the April elections in Northern Cyprus, Dervis Eroglu Nationalist candidate, currently leading the polls.
Northern Cyprus is recognized as a state only by Turkey.
Cyprus since 1974 when Turkish troops invaded the island in response to a Greek coup, led it to appear, making Greece is separated.
The last attempt at a consensual solution to the Cyprus problem – in 2004 – collapsed when Turkish Cypriots voted for a UN plan for the regulations, but the Greek Cypriots rejected it.
Consequently, Cyprus – or the southern part dominated by Greek Cypriots – members of the European Union this year, while the north has been virtually excluded.

At least 12 people died in two days of violence in the Pakistani city of Karachi, police said.
The killings appear to be the result of attacks led by ethnic and political rivals, they say.
Dozens of people were killed in similar attacks in the city in recent weeks.
Police say the time is still sporadic gunfire in parts of Karachi, a city of 17 million people and the country’s economic center.
The recent spate of killings began when activists worked for the ethnic Pashtun Awami National Party (ANP), by unknown persons attacked on Friday.
This attack came after a shootout in the Pashtun-dominated area of Orangi, Karachi, in the west.
The head of the ANP Karachi, Syed Shahid, debt activists loyal to the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) for the attack.
The MQM denied the charges. The MQM represents Urdu-speaking majority, the community of the city, who migrated from India at the time of partition in 1947.
MQM last month was to conduct similar attacks against people in Karachi Baloch nationals accused.
The Urdu-speaking people, especially the support of the MQM and the Balochistan People’s Party of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP).
The two parties share power in the federal and local government.
Last month, violence has been accompanied by a stop after a meeting of the PPP and MQM leaders expressed their political differences.

Principals must review meetings of the Board to sit for placement concerns about the new style A-levels.
Schools have complained that large differences in the results for the first part of the coast, AS-level last summer.
Review Committee members say that they welcome the teacher associations for their meetings.
The regulator, Ofqual, said it was in guaranteeing a level playing field for all students.
He gave a warning of the AS-level last year, recent changes unique challenges but said the audit committees for the maintenance of standards.
Among these changes, four instead of six units in the most difficult questions in the exams and an A * for the best candidate.
A change for the last time the values were found to have roles in a dozen subjects in 2002 after protests from the results in a revised form – which began with independent schools.
Altered after an external investigation, nearly 2,000 students received higher grades in general, including, but five times as many species had unity.
We are not in the same area, said Geoff Lucas, secretary of the Conference of Directors and Executives, which represents the leaders of several independent schools.
But he said his concerns as obtained in the year of big changes this year – both up and down – between the AS-level grades in 2008 and last summer.
He said it with Ofqual had been raised some time ago, and his organization had sent a large amount of detailed information about student performance and results to support the concerns of its members.
It has drawn a line on this issue during a meeting with Ofqual before Christmas.
But its members still feel unable, had been granted to explain some of the records.
Would be What is at stake is not high on their own, but we fear that with something fairly simple, there is nothing that has changed, which explains why he came to these changes, he said.
The hardest part two of the A-level this year is the A2 complex.
Transparency is essential to gain the trust of the people, he said.
His organization has proposed that the observer, the licensing authority (Review Board) meeting to decide where to set limits of quality in relation to the scores of the candidates so that standards remain seated receive from one year to another.
Dr Jim Sinclair, director of the Joint Council for Qualifications, which represents the main examination boards, said its members a long history of cooperation with teachers have.
Associations Teachers are more than welcome to attend meetings of the grant, but it needs by the agencies for a single place.

The students stopped to check on a hearing of the government fees for universities in England.
They staged a demonstration at the public hearing in London, said the outcome of the investigation was the observation that lost that would bring higher prices.
Government tests of the review says that some students are willing to pay higher fees could be for the classes of prestige, but the poorest students could be moved.
The review by Lord Browne to report after the elections.
The report, by the Institute of Employment Studies, suggested that students generally do not oppose the idea, more than they looked to pay a premium of being.
To bring include these courses: law, medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine, and would be higher wages.
But the researchers noted that students would not be influenced by differences in low-income rates between studies and to exclude certain institutions are too expensive.
In research, the students different scenarios to assess the factors that your decision about where to attend college influence.
It is possible that higher prices discourage applications for certain prestigious universities are already struggling to increase their consumption, says the report.
The study – by the government, carried out brought to justice – has to take the students a scenario for a loan of 20,000 fee for a course and 10,000 for others.
Differential fees must be considered. Potential candidates, particularly non-traditional [those who] can generally less likely to attend university to be more open to these differences are the differences between [universities], he said.
The investigation included an analysis of the views of 156 people (college applicants, employees, students and their parents), collected through interviews and focus groups.
The examination fee could pave the way for the universities in England to raise its fees in force at the current level of just over 3,000 per year.
Some universities say they want to raise their prices for as many as in 7000, but there are fears that less affluent young people may be delayed by price.
The study confirms the idea that not as well as students, the more the cost in terms of choice of the university that you are considering visiting.
You are more likely to want to attend college near his home life and reduce transportation costs, he said.
The National Union of Students, who testified in the investigation on Thursday against the university to be allowed to charge different rates.
Its leaders say this would lead to a two-tier system.

Israel has shown that two senior officers in the armed forces for the use of white phosphorous shells in a strictly offensive in the Gaza Strip.
Admission is included in the Israeli reaction to the Goldstone report concluded that both Israel and Hamas, the war crimes.
Details of any punishment to which the couple are not clear.
During the 22-day war last year, the media showed images of rockets raining down fire on a UN building.
The ranks of officers confirmed as a brigadier and a colonel.
It was named in the media section of the Israeli Gaza Commander Brigadier General Eyal Eisenberg and brigade commander Col. Givati Ilan Malka.
Several bombs have been in breach of rules on the use of the ban on the use of the artillery that fired near densely populated areas, the report said.
The officers were on the highest authority ordering the use of weapons during an attack Jan 15, 2009 charge.
BBC’s Paul Wood in Jerusalem says it is the first time, Israel has shown to all officials punished for their actions during the attack, the Israeli military operation designated as a protagonist.
This is the first time Israel has recognized categories of United Nations and other international organizations, the use of white phosphorus in a manner that endangers civilians during the war in Gaza.
According to our correspondent at the reception ranged buried in the document of the United Nations on Friday.
The General Assembly asked Israel and Hamas to launch independent investigations into their conduct during the Israeli operation, which began in December 2008.
An Israeli official said that by the United Nations did not intend to detail the charges and the events described in the report Goldstone react, but to explain why the Israeli judicial system was reliable and independent.
The Islamic movement Hamas denied that his forces deliberately targeted civilians with rockets.
Both parties have until February 5 launched in detail in the UN General Assembly called for an independent investigation into the response.
White phosphorus, which is used to determine the smokescreen, it is legal for use outdoors, but their use in populated areas where citizens are prohibited under international conventions.
Television footage showed burning pieces of phosphorus, streaming white smoke, landing in the courtyard of the UN building in Beit Lahiya.
The UN building was badly damaged and people sought refuge ijured.
Human Rights Watch, New York-based Human Rights group said the Israeli use of phosphorous weapons became more widely known and many people died as a result of burns.

Network Rail has been blamed for a catalogue of inspection failures over a bridge collapse which caused a freight train to derail in Ayrshire.
The train, which was carrying kerosene, gas oil and diesel, came off the rails south of Stewarton on 27 January 2009.
The Rail Accident Investigation Branch said corrosion in the bridge’s girders meant it could not support heavy loads.
Its report criticises Network Rail’s maintenance regime for the bridge and says corrosion went unidentified.
Six of the 10 wagons came off the rails during the incident and some caught fire, causing flames to shoot 50ft into the air.
Power lines were also brought down and the nearby A735 was closed. It took the emergency services several hours to bring the fire under control.
The resultant leakage of fuel contaminated local waterways, causing harm to wildlife.
In the immediate aftermath, it was thought that the derailment had caused the bridge to collapse.
But in its report, the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) said the bridge – referred to as bridge 88 – had failed under the weight of the train, causing it to derail.
The report states: “The immediate cause of the derailment was the collapse of the bridge that followed the catastrophic structural failure of its east and centre main girders.
“Heavy corrosion had so significantly weakened these main girders that they were no longer able to carry the loading from trains that were permitted to run over the bridge.”
The report criticises Network Rail’s maintenance regime for the bridge and said “hidden corrosion” had gone unidentified.
It states that “no arrangements had been made to inspect the hidden parts of the east and centre main girders” where the heavy corrosion had occurred.
Corroded parts of the bridge were “not fully repaired” when the bridge was waterproofed in 1987.
The report also states that the bridge superstructure was not re-painted when the waterproofing work was done, or afterwards.
The RAIB also said there had been a “lack of action” after corrosion was highlighted in an urgent defect report in October 2003.
It recommends that Network Rail undertakes “checks and intervention action” on other bridges “that may be at risk because of similar hidden corrosion issues or erroneous assessment findings”.
The operator of Britain’s rail infrastructure is also urged to improve its “methods and processes for the examination of hidden critical parts of structures” and its management of the information used for making decisions about the structural safety of its bridges.
Network Rail said that since the crash it had carried out inspections on 575 bridges of similar design throughout the UK – 129 of which were in Scotland.
A spokesman said: “This was a serious incident which we have investigated thoroughly alongside the RAIB investigation.
“Both investigations have concluded that the main cause of the incident was the condition of the centre main girder supporting the bridge deck which failed under the weight of the loaded freight train.

Toyota is on the verge of “capitulation to irrelevance or death”.
Not my words, but those of Toyota president Akio Toyoda.
He said it, not in response to the continuing recalls of more than eight million cars worldwide, but in a speech at the Japan National Press Club on 2 October 2009.
At the time, long before the latest safety scares, a slew of quality and safety problems had sent Toyota’s reputation sliding.
The decline was there for all to see. It was written into the company’s sales and earnings reports, which revealed months of steady decline.
Selling more cars than General Motors (GM) and thus becoming the world’s biggest carmaker had never formally been a target for the Japanese carmaker.
But volume growth had: in 2002, when the company’s global market share stood at little more than 10%, then Toyota president Fujio Cho outlined a plan to reach 15% soon after 2010.
A year ago, when GM stumbled towards bankruptcy, Toyota’s ascent into the top slot was inevitable. In 2008, Toyota sold 8.9 million, while GM sold 8.3 million vehicles.
But the rot had already set in; Toyota had just issued its first-ever profit warning for the year as a whole. Then, in spring 2009, it reported a 436.9bn yen ($4.4bn; ￡2.9bn at the time) operating loss for the fiscal year to March.
The company was in crisis mode.
In June, Mr Toyoda stepped in at the helm of the huge carmaker, four months after former Toyota president Katsuaki Watanabe was ousted in a humiliating ritual in front of some 400 Toyota executives.
Akio Toyoda was clear in his criticism: the executives running the company that his grandfather Sakichi Toyoda founded had run it into the ditch.
“Toyota has become too big and distant from its customers,” he said in his autumn speech, castigating the firm’s executives for their “undisciplined pursuit of more” and for their arrogance, which he referred to as “hubris born of success”.
Within weeks of taking charge, Mr Toyoda was informed of an accident in which an off-duty traffic officer and three of his relatives had died. The accelerator getting caught in the floor mat of the brand-new Lexus was deemed a possible cause.
“Four precious lives have been lost,” Mr Toyoda said at the time. “I offer my deepest condolences.”
A recall of 3.8 million Toyotas followed, involving a so-called “semi-permanent floormat installation process” – or rip-zipping the driver’s side mat to the seat rails.
The current pedal problem, which has led to the latest recall, is more complex and the fix is proving considerably more costly.

The owner of an award-winning Lanarkshire fish and chip shop has had to install a second fryer to cope with a huge surge in demand for his suppers.
Atlantic Fast Food in Coatbridge was named the best chippie in the UK at a ceremony in London last month.
Owner Giovanni Fionda said that since scooping the title business has more than doubled.
In the past few weeks customers from as far away as Australia have visited the takeaway to sample the food.
Mr Fionda, 27, told the BBC Scotland news website: “The increase in demand has been amazing. We have had people coming down from Aberdeen and up from as far south as York to the shop.
“There were also people from Ireland and Australia who had heard we had won the award and were in Scotland on business and came in to try our fish and chips.
“Our car park has been mobbed with people sitting in their cars eating their dinner because they have come from far away and can’t just take it back home like our regular customers do.”
Last Friday the shop served 1.75 tonnes of potatoes, more than double the usual amount, and Mr Fionda has had to take on extra staff to cope with the additional customers.
He added: “Since coming back from London I have pretty much been in the shop constantly.
“The staff have all been working really hard.
“We want to ensure that people who visit the shop because of the award like it and will come back again.”
The award for the best fish and chip shop in the UK is run by the Seafish organisation.
Scottish shops have claimed the title for the past three years running, with the Anstruther Fish Bar in Fife and the Townhead Cafe in Biggar among previous winners.

More parents are being fined for taking their children on holiday during term time without permission, figures obtained by the BBC suggest.
The 20 largest local authorities in England say the number of fines levied so far this academic year is up by 10%.
In Liverpool the number is up 50% to 116 fines in the autumn term compared to 77 for the same period last year.
Over 18,000 penalty notices were issued in England in the school year 2007-8. Scotland and Wales do not use fines.
“We see some families taking holidays two or three times a year,” said Ron Collinson, Liverpool’s chief attendance officer.
Mr Collinson says the loss of lessons is “highly disruptive” for pupils.
“They always seem to take them at key times for the schools, when we’re trying to settle them into new environments or they even take them at times that coincide with exams.”
Another local factor in Liverpool is the battle between low-cost airlines offering deals from the city’s John Lennon Airport.
Parents complain that flights and holidays are far more expensive outside term time and this can dwarf the cost of a fine.
In England, parents can be fined ￡50 per child if it is paid within 28 days, rising to ￡100 or a court appearance afterwards.
But schools are given discretion to agree up to 10 days holiday a year, only if they feel there are exceptional reasons involved.
Some schools take a carrot and stick approach, agreeing to requests for holidays if a child’s attendance for the rest of the school year is above 95%.
This is the approach taken at Holly Lodge Girls College in Liverpool. But some parents still ignore the rules.
“Some parents just pay the fine and factor it into the cost of the holiday,” said head teacher Julia Tinsley.
But she said sometimes parents do have good reasons for taking holidays in term time.
“We have some parents who are in the police force or fire brigade who have no choice about when to take their holiday, so we do have to be sensible about it.”
Primary schools tend to take a less rigorous approach, and many shy away from fining parents who tend to have a much closer relationship with the school than at secondary level.
There is also some doubt about the effectiveness of the measure.
“I’m not sure that it has any effect whatsoever,” said Phil Daniels, head teacher at Springwood Heath Primary School in Liverpool.