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I would not want to live near any russian nuclear reactor. Russia's handling of these is extremely poor. Just look at the fate of their nuclear-powered submarin

• lowry 8y ago
  Are you hinting at Kursk? It did not even leak for the year it was laying on seabed.
  • lispm 8y ago
    Example: Germany paid more than 550 million Euro and provided expertise&people to help securing rotting nuclear reactors from Russian submarines: https://de.rbth.com/wissen-und-technik/79917-russische-atom-u-boote-murmansk https://de.rbth.com/wissen-und-technik/79917-russische-atom-... If Germany invested that amount of money into Russia, you can bet that it was urgent. Hopefully Russia has shown more care dealing with their Nuclear power plants... https://www.dw.com/de/russland-entsorgung-von-atom-u-booten-beginnt/a-2105430 https://www.dw.com/de/russland-entsorgung-von-atom-u-booten-... http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/lager-fuer-alte-atom-u-boote-deutsche-hilfe-fuer-russlands-strahlendes-erbe-12627451.html?printPagedArticle=true#pageIndex_0 http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/lager-fuer-alte-atom-u-bo... All in all the West (!!!) provided many more billions for the safety of those approximately 120-180 (!) nuclear-powered submarines. https://www.zeit.de/2013/07/Russisches-Polarmeer-Atom-U-Boote/komplettansicht https://www.zeit.de/2013/07/Russisches-Polarmeer-Atom-U-Boot... Pictures: https://www.bmwi.de/Redaktion/DE/Downloads/A/abruestung-atom-u-boote-anlage-2.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=2 https://www.bmwi.de/Redaktion/DE/Downloads/A/abruestung-atom... Russia also has submarines buried at the ground in the arctic sea. Like the K-27 in the early 80s. https://www.maritime-executive.com/editorials/russia-updates-maps-of-radioactive-debris-sunk-in-arctic https://www.maritime-executive.com/editorials/russia-updates... Sunken objects: > 17,000 containers of radioactive waste; 19 ships containing radioactive waste; 14 nuclear reactors, including five that still contain spent nuclear fuel; the K-27 nuclear submarine with its two reactors loaded with nuclear fuel and 735 other pieces of radioactively contaminated heavy machinery.