Norwegian scientist says decaying Russian subs threaten 'Chernobyl in slow motion' - Telegraph.co.uk
The NRPA says that before the USSR collapsed in 1991, Soviet authorities dumped an estimated 17,000 containers of nuclear waste, two submarines, 19 ships containing radioactive waste, 14 nuclear reactors, including five that still contain spent... Most dangerous of all are two submarines – the K-159 and the K-27 – which lie on the ocean floor, the first at the entrance to Kola Bay in the Barents Sea and the second in the shallows surrounding the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, where nuclear... Bellona says the K-27 submarine was scuttled in less than 150 feet of water in the early 1980s after a reactor accident that killed nine crew on-board in 1968. Its reactors contain an estimated 200lb of uranium 235. The K-159 sank unexpectedly... Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
