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Russian nuclear submarine: Norway finds big radiation leak
- herendin2 7y agoIn case of misunderstanding, the sub is K-278, the big nuclear-armed and nuclear-powered Komsomolets, which was lost at 1680 meters in 1989. It isn't the smaller sub that recently had an accident, also in the Barents Sea, but did not sink.
- Areading314 7y agoI believe the smaller one was called the Kursk
- NedIsakoff 7y agoDifferent sub.
- jlgaddis 7y ago> The Komsomolets sank in the Norwegian Sea in 1989 after a fire on board killed 42 sailors.
- Areading314 7y agoNo, the smaller, more recent one that was mentioned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kursk_submarine_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kursk_submarine_disaster
- ceejayoz 7y agoThe Kursk sank. This is the one, I think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_submarine_Losharik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_submarine_Losharik
- darkcha0s 7y agoActually, the Kursk sank in 2000 and was quite a bit larger than the sub mentioned in the article. Also the Kursk disaster was deadlier than all aforementioned submarine accidents.
- whenchamenia 7y agoTitle 'Big radiation leak' Body 'nothing alarming' Thanks BBC.
- superhuzza 7y agoThe radiation level is '800,000 times higher than normal'. Objectively speaking, that's a big leak. It's just not anywhere that important.
- manfredo 7y agoNot if normal is close to zero. "Homicide rates tripled in the last year!" could easily mean 3 people got killed when last year was one. Never trust a proportional statement when the baseline is not provided. In this case, a pipe was measured to be leaking 800 becquerels per lite. One Curie is 37 trillion becquerels. It's 46 millionths of a Curie. A fatal dose is usually measured in the thousandths of a Curie. This is incredibly benign, and probably drops to difficult-to-detect levels 100 meters from the submarine. Really, this article strikes me as low effort at best, fear mongering at worst.
- superhuzza 7y agoAfter reading your comment and some other articles, you're right. I guess I was just shocked by the relative difference even if it was fairly meaningless in reality.
- geezerjay 7y agoThe article is well written, and easy to understand. FTA: > Norway has found a radiation level 800,000 times higher than normal at the wreck of a Russian navy submarine. >(Snip) > A sample showed radioactive caesium leaking from a ventilation pipe, but researchers said it was "not alarming", as the Arctic water quickly diluted it.
- dajohnson89 7y agoEnvironmental degradation is the story of death by a thousand cuts.
- demarq 7y agoAren't those nuclear missles technology that should be recovered or guarded?
- ceejayoz 7y agoAt a mile below the surface, it's probably safer (from human malicious actors) there than pretty much anywhere in Russia.