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TOWN CONTAMINATED
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 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.