{"id":31369,"date":"2015-05-20T02:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T06:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=31369"},"modified":"2015-05-17T20:43:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T00:43:15","slug":"scuttled-soviet-submarines-in-the-arctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/05\/20\/scuttled-soviet-submarines-in-the-arctic\/","title":{"rendered":"Scuttled Soviet submarines in the Arctic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Soviet Union had a remarkably casual approach to <a href=\"http:\/\/barentsobserver.com\/en\/nature\/2015\/04\/sunken-soviet-submarines-threaten-massive-radioactive-contamination-29-04\" target=\"_blank\">disposing of nuclear-powered submarines<\/a> that were no longer useful in active service:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Russian scientists have made a worst-case scenario map for possible spreading of radionuclides from the wreck of the K-159 nuclear-powered submarine that sank twelve years ago in one of the best fishing areas of the Barents Sea. <\/p>\n<p>Mikhail Kobrinsky with the Nuclear Safety Institute of the Russian Academy of Science says the sunken November-class submarine can\u2019t stay at the seabed. The two reactors contain 800 kilos of spent uranium fuel. <\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_31370\" style=\"width: 863px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31370\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/k-159_radioactive_releases-853x547.jpg\" alt=\"The map shows expected spreading of radioactive Cs-137 from potential releases from the K-159 that still lays on the seabed northeast of Murmansk in the Barents Sea. \" width=\"853\" height=\"547\" class=\"size-large wp-image-31370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/k-159_radioactive_releases-853x547.jpg 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/k-159_radioactive_releases-150x96.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/k-159_radioactive_releases-480x308.jpg 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/k-159_radioactive_releases.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-31370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The map shows expected spreading of radioactive Cs-137 from potential releases from the K-159 that still lays on the seabed northeast of Murmansk in the Barents Sea.<\/p><\/div>At a recent seminar in Murmansk organized jointly by Russia\u2019s nuclear agency Rosatom and the Norwegian environmental group Bellona, Kobrinsky presented the scenario map most fishermen in the Barents Sea would get nightmares by seeing.<\/p>\n<p>Some areas could be sealed off for commercial fisheries for up to two years, Mikhail Kobrinsky explained.<\/p>\n<p>Ocean currents would bring the radioactivity eastwards in the Barents Sea towards the inlet to the White Sea in the south and towards the Pechora Sea and Novaya Zemlya in the northeast.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Soviet Union had a remarkably casual approach to disposing of nuclear-powered submarines that were no longer useful in active service: Russian scientists have made a worst-case scenario map for possible spreading of radionuclides from the wreck of the K-159 nuclear-powered submarine that sank twelve years ago in one of the best fishing areas of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,62,5],"tags":[247,30,107,443,433,364],"class_list":["post-31369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-europe","category-military","tag-arctic","tag-navy","tag-nukes","tag-pollution","tag-sovietunion","tag-submarine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-89X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31371,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31369\/revisions\/31371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}