A container with a nuclear reactor of the K-19 submarine was found in the Abrosimov Bay in the Kara Sea off the coast of Russia. On Thursday, September 2, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the head of the state central airmobile detachment "Centrospas" of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Yevgeny Linitsev.
According to him, the discovery was made by specialists of the departments of the Ministry of Emergency Situations "Centrospas" and "Leader" and the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences during an expedition to search for submerged underwater radioactive objects. "The ship" Academician Mstislav Keldysh " reached the set point and anchored in front of the entrance to the Ambrosiev Bay... As part of the work, a sonar survey was carried out, the object was detected," Linitsev said.
He noted that now the experts will have to conduct a visual inspection of the found object and spectral analysis, as well as take plant material from it. Currently, work on the site is continuing.
Numerous objects were buried in the bays of the Kara Sea after nuclear weapons tests on Novaya Zemlya. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, only in the Novozemelskaya Depression there may be about 1.2 thousand dangerous radioactive objects, including parts of submarines and the nuclear icebreaker "Lenin". In total, more than 24 thousand names have been entered in the register of underwater objects that potentially pose a danger and are located in the internal waters and territorial sea of Russia.
The K-19 submarine, known in the navy as the Hiroshima, was launched in 1959 and became the first Soviet nuclear-powered missile carrier. During her service on the submarine, accidents have repeatedly occurred that led to the death of people, including an accident at the reactor in 1961. In 1990, the submarine was withdrawn from the fleet and disposed of.
Varvara Koshechkina
