A Sunken Nuclear Submarine Is Leaking Radiation Into the Ocean. How Worried Should We Be?

According to new research published in PNAS, a Cold War-era nuclear submarine sitting at the bottom of the Norwegian Sea is still leaking radioactive material. It’s happening slowly, if unevenly, and it’s contained just enough to avoid becoming a full-scale environmental disaster… for now. The K-278 Komsomolets sank in 1989 after an onboard fire, taking […] The post A Sunken Nuclear Submarine Is Leaking Radiation Into the Ocean. How Worried Should We Be? appeared first on VICE .

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