SAVE MONEY ON TRAVEL DEALS

The Murmansk ended up on the rocks outside Sorvaer in 1994 when it was being towed to India for salvage, Aftenposten reported Sunday. Government inspectors had determined the wreck was safe and radiation-free but then equipment taken from the ship for possible recycling set off radiation detectors.

"We have a zero tolerance for radioactivity", said Trond Lore, head of Eurovironment, an electronics recycling company.

Government officials called it a "minor event."

"We inspected the equipment and got relatively low readings", said Ole Reistad at the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority. "Nevertheless they were strong enough for it to be unwise for people to come into direct contact with the material."

But Olaf Braastad of the environmental group Bellona labeled the situation scandalous.

"Not only is the cruiser, which lies in the middle of a tourist paradise, full of environmentally hazardous chemicals, it turns out that it contains radioactive material as well", he told Aftenposten.

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