Location of the radiation.
Norway (click here) has found a radiation level 800,000 times higher than normal at the wreck of a Russian navy submarine.
The Komsomolets sank in the Norwegian Sea in 1989 after a fire on board killed 42 sailors.
A sample showed radioactive caesium leaking from a ventilation pipe, but researchers said it was "not alarming", as the Arctic water quickly diluted it.
The Soviet-era sub is also deep down, at 1,680m (5,512ft), and there are few fish in the area, they added.
For the first time a Norwegian remotely-operated vehicle (ROV) examined and filmed the Komsomolets on 7 July, revealing severe damage.
The submarine is also known as K-278 in Russia, and it sank carrying two nuclear torpedoes with plutonium warheads.
Its front section has six torpedo tubes, and the sub could also launch Granit cruise missiles....
Oh, is the fish free of contamination in the Pacific? Russia continues to have this horrible record in the use of nuclear capacity. The accidents happen over and over, but, they are expecting a nuclear powered cargo ship to bring fresh fish to St. Petersburg. Tell me this makes sense. Because I don't see it. Russia should go back to using wooden ships and oars.
September 10, 2019
By The Barents Observer
The world’s only remaining civilian nuclear-powered cargo ship, (click here) the Sevmorput, is sailing south into the Norwegian Sea en route to St. Petersburg with 204 refrigerated containers of frozen fish from the Pacific aimed for the market in European Russia.
The ship will arrive in St. Petersburg by the end of this week after sailing south along the coast of Norway through the Great Belt in Denmark and into the Baltic Sea.
"It’s crucial for Rosatomflot to expand the geography of our work," says Mustafa Kaskha, director of the Murmansk-based, state-owned fleet of nuclear-powered icebreakers.
This is the first time that Russia has sailed commercial cargo with a nuclear-powered vessel via the Arctic to St. Petersburg....
Oh, is the fish free of contamination in the Pacific? Russia continues to have this horrible record in the use of nuclear capacity. The accidents happen over and over, but, they are expecting a nuclear powered cargo ship to bring fresh fish to St. Petersburg. Tell me this makes sense. Because I don't see it. Russia should go back to using wooden ships and oars.
September 10, 2019
By The Barents Observer
The world’s only remaining civilian nuclear-powered cargo ship, (click here) the Sevmorput, is sailing south into the Norwegian Sea en route to St. Petersburg with 204 refrigerated containers of frozen fish from the Pacific aimed for the market in European Russia.
The ship will arrive in St. Petersburg by the end of this week after sailing south along the coast of Norway through the Great Belt in Denmark and into the Baltic Sea.
"It’s crucial for Rosatomflot to expand the geography of our work," says Mustafa Kaskha, director of the Murmansk-based, state-owned fleet of nuclear-powered icebreakers.
This is the first time that Russia has sailed commercial cargo with a nuclear-powered vessel via the Arctic to St. Petersburg....
