Events
Moscow – A Russian journalist has uncovered evidence of another Soviet nuclear
catastrophe, which killed 10 sailors and contaminated an entire town.
Yelena
Vazrshavskya is the first journalist to speak to people who witnessed the
explosion of a nuclear submarine at the naval base of shkotovo – 22 near
Vladivostock. The accident, which occurred 13 months before the Chernobyl
disaster, spread radioactive fall-out over the base and nearby town, but was
covered up by officials of the Soviet Union. Residents were told the explosion
in the reactor of the Victor-class submarine during a refit SMA Students’ Modul
of English 24 had been a ‘thermal’ and not a nuclear explosion. And those
involved in the clean up operation to remove more than 600 tones of
contaminated material were sworn to secrecy.
A board of
investigators was later to describe it as the worst accident in the history of
the Soviet Navy.
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Events
Moscow – A Russian journalist has uncovered evidence of another Soviet
nuclear catastrophe, which killed 10 sailors and contaminated an entire town.
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Yelena
Vazrshavskya is the first journalist to speak to people who witnessed the
explosion of a nuclear submarine at the naval base of shkotovo – 22 near
Vladivostock. The accident, which occurred 13 months before the Chernobyl
disaster, spread radioactive fall-out over the base and nearby town, but was
covered up by officials of the Soviet Union. Residents were told the
explosion in the reactor of the Victor-class submarine during a refit SMA
Students’ Modul of English 24 had been a ‘thermal’ and not a nuclear explosion.
And those involved in the clean up operation to remove more than 600 tones of
contaminated material were sworn to secrecy.
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A
board of investigators was later to describe it as the worst accident in the
history of the Soviet Navy.
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