In April 1989 the Soviet Navy’s nuclear submarine Komsomolets caught fire while cruising 335 m beneath the surface of the ...
A plume of radioactive material seeping from Komsomolets. (Gwynn et al., PNAS, 2026) A sunken Cold War-era nuclear submarine ...
Rushed into service as the Soviet Union’s first nuclear ballistic missile submarine, K-19 carried design flaws, accidents, ...
Over 30 years after it sank, a Soviet nuclear submarine is still leaking radioactive material in the deep sea. Scientists ...