Container with reactor of nuclear submarine K-19 was found at the bottom of the Kara Sea

The expedition of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences found a container with a nuclear reactor of the K-19 submarine at the bottom of the Kara Sea. This was announced by the head of the central airmobile unit "Centrospas" Evgeny Lineytsev on his Facebook page.

The expedition, which includes specialists from the Tsentrospas and Leader Emergencies Ministry units, as well as scientists from the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, are exploring the Arctic Ocean in order to discover burials of radioactive waste. In the Gulf of Ambrosiev at the bottom of the Kara Sea, the remote-controlled robot Falcon discovered a container with a nuclear reactor of the submarine K-19. The work is being carried out from the board of the Akademik Mstislav Keldysh vessel.

In the future, the find will be examined and all the necessary analyzes will be carried out. The facility will be included in a special register, which is created by the Ministry of Emergency Situations on behalf of the government. It marks the burial sites of radioactive waste, chemical poisonous substances and ammunition. At the moment, more than 24 thousand items have been entered into the register.

As noted, the Kara Sea is a burial place for numerous waste left after nuclear tests. weapons... In four bays of the sea, parts of the nuclear reactor of the icebreaker "Lenin", the nuclear submarine K-27 and many other objects, the number of which has long exceeded a thousand, have been flooded.

K-19 - Project 658 nuclear submarine with ballistic nuclear missiles, the first Soviet nuclear missile carrier. For numerous accidents, the boat enjoyed a bad reputation and had navy nickname "Hiroshima". It entered the Soviet fleet in 1960, was withdrawn from the Russian Navy in 1990, and sent for scrapping in 2003.

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[svp67]

Hmm ... they were in charge, that now we don't even know where, what lies ...

[rocket757]

You can find it, too bright \ obvious traces remain.
It is difficult to get it all out and bury it safely and reliably.

[Piramidon]

Quote: rocket757

It is difficult to get it all out and bury it safely and reliably.

The Japanese don't really bother. A pipe from Fokushima has been laid and their radioactive shit is dumped into the sea. But this is Japan, not Russia. They can. And about K-19, all sorts of Greta Thunbergs are whining, although they still cannot find even traces of radiation.

[rocket757]

And what are we doing now, not for them, for our descendants.

[Alexey RA]

Quote: svp67

Hmm ... they were in charge, that now we don't even know where, what lies ...

It's just that the journalists are traditionally whipping up.
On the same deepstorm a long time ago in an article on K-19 it was written that in 1965 the reactor compartment with two reactors with spent nuclear fuel was flooded in Abrosimsov Bay at a depth of 20 m.

[APASUS]

Maybe it's time to start picking up this garbage? These mistakes can cost the next generations too much.

[Anatole Klim]

Quote: APASUS

Maybe it's time to start picking up this garbage? These mistakes can cost the next generations too much.

They will definitely increase, geological exploration is already assessing gas reserves in the Kara Sea at 2 trillion cubic meters and at 200 million tons of oil. Considering that "Gazprom is our national treasure," they will do everything to ensure that nothing interferes with production. And the deposits there are really unique.

[awdrgy]

And then the gas will become radioactive))) and figs who will buy for Eureka. Disorder however.

[NKT]

If you pass it through GTS 404, then it is purified and becomes the cleanest gas in the world, though without molecules of freedom, you have to go across the ocean to get them

[awdrgy]

There transit is not profitable, I think. It’s better to push it straight in the north, probably more money. I’m not particularly good at selling resources abroad.

[A.K.]

Is it that it was so disposed of or what? Flooded the reactor and forgot where

[Alexey RA]

Quote: A.K.

Is it that it was so disposed of or what? Flooded the reactor and forgot where

This "Hiroshima" was so modernized - after the accident. The reactor compartment was cut out and flooded, and the place of flooding is known to everyone who bothered to go beyond the article on Wikipedia.

[tralflot1832]

The echo of the armament race? There were no Glonas before, all by sextant and bearing. We must see what is done with this good.

[ja-ja-vw]

In four bays of the sea, parts of the nuclear reactor of the icebreaker "Lenin", the nuclear submarine K-27 and many other objects, the number of which has long exceeded a thousand, have been flooded.

figure out how to put a smelly garbage bag, and even with 10 m of broken mercury thermometers in your closet

The Northern Fleet also dumped 17 containers of hazardous nuclear materials overboard and deliberately sunk 000 ships filled with radioactive waste, as well as 19 contaminated heavy equipment. More low activity liquid waste was poured directly into the ice water.

[Stepan S]

And sometimes you might think that the North is an ecologically clean region, there are few people, there is no one to shit. But it turns out that everything is just the opposite. Not only are all the islands and tundra strewn with barrels and abandoned equipment, the tundra has been opened and flooded with oil, but the northern seas are all already glowing from a non-peaceful atom.

[Charlie]

And the Tu-95, which lies at the bottom not far from Sakhalin, with nuclear missiles, will it also be included in the register?

[tralflot1832]

Fishermen in the Kara Sea do not catch fish. Otherwise, the Kraken will gnaw off the trawl, along the trawl boards. We look at the currents of the Kara Sea. From the opposite side in the Barents Sea. Norwegian fishermen, according to interstate quotas, catch fish all over the place and do not light anything. They even breed, and on skis running around so you can't catch up.

[Mar.Tirah]

Quote: tralflot1832

Fishermen in the Kara Sea do not catch fish

We fish in the sea and in rivers. This fish rises to spawn all the way to Novosibirsk, Omsk and Krasnoyarsk. The fish are annually monitored for radioactivity. Until it does not glow in Fukushima. In Siberia, their burials are higher than the roof. Moreover, their number is increasing.

[tralflot1832]

And what comes up to spawn for you from the Kara Sea?

[Mar.Tirah]

Whitefish and cod fish species ..

[tralflot1832]

Does burbot go to Novaya Zemlya to fatten up fat? Wait, I'll look at the aquaculture of the Ob and Yenisei, what is there for such anadromous fish in the sea, otherwise I know nothing besides salmon, brown trout and pink salmon.

[tralflot1832]

And I wrap up the whitefish-pyzhian in canned food, I hope he does not go from the Ob and Yenisei Bay to K 27 and K 19 to rub his sides with his sides. Although maybe you can’t get me through with anything, in 1986 we had a plum compote from the Pripyat state farm in our ship's shop ... By the way, cool, I still remember, in three liter jars, plums were not spared.

[Mar.Tirah]

Quote: tralflot1832

Wait a look at the aquaculture of the Ob and Yenisei, what is there for such anadromous fish in the sea, otherwise I don't know anything except salmon, brown trout and pink salmon.

That is, you want to catch me in a lie? No need, I worked in the fishing committee on ships and boats for 7 years, and I also know how the beluga whale does not spawn in rivers, and I served in the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the KGB of the USSR, and there, as you know, very close cooperation with employees of the state control, supervision and protection of aquatic biological resources and their habitat (fish supervision is simple) Therefore, just believe me, fish from the sea go to spawn where fresh and clean running water is rich in oxygen. I'm not sure about the contamination of this fish by radiation. But everything can be, she's not forbidden to walk in areas closed for navigation or navigation. And there are many such areas contaminated with radioactive emissions during accidents even on river floodplains, I myself have seen such areas, an eerie spectacle of lunar landscapes from horror films. Therefore, they check selectively fish products for radiation contamination ..

[tralflot1832]

In general, I believed that the Kara Sea was dead, they never went there to fish from Murmansk, even on a fish-searching expedition. And my friends from the Murmansk Shipping Company said that biting after the Kara Gate stops. From the word at all.

[Mar.Tirah]

Quote: tralflot1832

I generally believed that the Kara Sea was dead,

This is not true. Although industrial fishing is more developed in the Barents Sea due to the milder climate and accessibility, the flora is very rich there too. Just because of the mighty Siberian rivers of the sisters Lena and Ob, and the Yenisei. Another thing is that it is more difficult to catch there. But I love my nature, my rivers, my sea

[alch3mist]

Fishermen in the Kara Sea do not catch fish

When passing from the Barents Sea, where the fish itself jumps on the hook, through the Kara Gates into the Kara Sea - as it cuts off - not a single fish. And further to the east, up to Chukotka, there is no fish. Scientists explain this georaphic paradox by the large runoff of Siberian rivers: the water is uncomfortable for either freshwater or marine fish.

[tralflot1832]

I looked, commercial fishing is only in the Obskaya, Yeniseiskaya and a couple of small bays. Radiation will not go upstream.

[Mar.Tirah]

Quote: alch3mist

Scientists explain this georaphic paradox by the large runoff of Siberian rivers: the water is uncomfortable for either freshwater or marine fish.

What do you mean ?????? And I’m bad, like ichthyologists, I thought that just the opposite, the fish feeds on the microflora that lives in the bottom layers, silty sediments carried out by these very rivers into the sea, such as the Siberian sturgeon living in the mouths of such rivers ..And it there is it ????

[alch3mist]

What do you mean ?????? And I’m bad, like ichthyologists, I thought that just the opposite, the fish feeds on the microflora that lives in the bottom layers, silty sediments carried out by these very rivers into the sea, such as the Siberian sturgeon living in the mouths of such rivers ..And it there is it ????

And where is the contradiction? There is fresh water in the mouths of the rivers. Or you think that the fact that there are no fish in the indicated seas I just sucked it out of your finger? Search for help.

[Mar.Tirah]

Quote: alch3mist

And where is the contradiction? There is fresh water in the river mouths. Or do you think that I just sucked the fact that there were no fish in these seas? Search for help.

Quote: alch3mist

scientists explain the large runoff of Siberian rivers: the water is uncomfortable for either freshwater or marine fish.

What do you mean by the word uncomfortable. There is no such thing. The water temperature and the harsh climate are not comfortable, as well as the impossibility of fishing all year round. There is no more comfort there. The fish is in constant movement, migration. Why do I need GUGL if I listened to lectures at seminars on the problems of fish farming in northern latitudes ???? I think you are wrong, the flora there is very diverse and rich.

[Bradley]

Hmm, re-watch the movie with Harrison Ford?

[DenVB]

Can anyone explain when and under what circumstances the K-19 reactor ended up in a container at the bottom of the sea?

[Alexey RA]

Quote: DenVB

Can anyone explain when and under what circumstances the K-19 reactor ended up in a container at the bottom of the sea?

The reactor compartment was cut out during refurbishment in 1962-1963. after the accident and in 1965 it was flooded at a depth of 20 m.
The place of flooding is well known to the same ecologists - there is no need to "discover" anything. Moreover, in 2012 there was an article on VO "Nuclear submarines with ballistic missiles such as K-19. Project 658 (Hotel-I class)", which wrote:

During the repair, which was carried out from 1962 to 1964, both nuclear reactors were replaced at the ship. Old reactors, together with nuclear fuel, were dumped in the Abrosimov Bay. Today, such actions look blasphemous, but in the 1960s, at the height of the US-Soviet nuclear confrontation, both opposing sides did not attach much importance to such things and proceeded mainly from the considerations of those. expediency.

[Nikon O'Conor]

Don't you know? OO! K-19 is a unique submarine, with the possibility of a torpedo hitting the reactor compartment more than 75%, the tube artificial intelligence would automatically fire off the container with a nuclear reactor in order to avoid a nuclear explosion on the ship!
It's sarcasm I read fiction on the worlds of EVE))
In general, the comments above explain everything. It was easier to drown the USSR than to equip a very expensive infrastructure on its territory.

[alch3mist]

In general, the comments above explain everything. It was easier to drown the USSR than to equip a very expensive infrastructure on its territory.

Don't blame everything on the USSR alone. Worldwide there was a very frivolous attitude towards radiation. It wasn't until the late 60s that attitudes began to slowly change. Veterans of the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (head of the fundamental for the Ministry of Medium Machine Building (now RosAtom)) told me what kind of radiation flew there along the corridors in the 50s - early 60s. Later, there was a grandiose cleaning, radioactive carpets were chopped with axes (so that no idiot would take home). The remains of the very first experimental reactor in the USSR (yes, not at Kurchatov's!) Were cleaned out of the basement only in the second half of the 80s. Almost the center of Moscow.

[Nikon O'Conor]

Don't blame everything on the USSR alone. Worldwide

Do not distort my words.
In this article, we are talking about the waste of the USSR, which is why I am talking about the union.
Nothing, I'm not a currency for the USSR, based on your words, it's all the intrigues of enemies! They stole the reactor from -19 and drowned it, they wanted to set us up! .So chtoli?

[tralflot1832]

Duc there in the middle at 327 meters itself, the Goldfish lies with two liquid metal reactors.

[Victor Tsenin]

> remote-controlled robot "Falcon"
The apparatus of the patriotic RAS cannot be called a falcon?

[Avior]

The fact is that the robot is not produced by RAS. Therefore, they did not call.

FALCON - Small-sized remote-controlled submersible of small class. Developed by Saab Seaeye [1] [2].
Designed to perform prospecting and survey work in coastal waters. Built on a polypropylene supporting frame. It is equipped with 4 horizontal and 1 vertical thrusters, a color video camera (480 TVL, 0.2 lux) on a platform with a variable angle of inclination of ± 90 °.

https://www.saabseaeye.com/solutions/underwater-vehicles/falcon

[Victor Tsenin]

Thanks so much for clarifying. Confused by the rampant Angloification.

[Split]

I think that burial at sea is like permanent water cooling? and there was no 2nd Kyshtym (Mayak)? But corrosion will take its toll .... or did you not think that socialism would last so long? Eh ... yes ... we live today and do not think 50 years ahead ...

[Tests]

ja-ja-vw (Lieutenant Rzhevsky), dear, you seem to have scared the people pretty much on the site. Both of our capitals are still garbage dumps. Because of the reactors, because of the storage of radioactive waste, because of the sources that showed through welded joints, forgings and castings, because of honey. institutions, because of the factories that were engaged in chemistry, shoes, clothes, ships and ships, cars and wagons were painted, and infrasound, ultrasound, microwave radiation ... About household waste dumps, even to remember too laziness. And nothing, people live, real estate in price rushing and rushing up! Well, all over the country and all around the country, you need to take the maps of the Ministry of Defense, KGB, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Industry, Ministry of Health, Minhim, Mingeology, Ministry of Ferrous and Nonferrous Metallurgy, Ministry of Medium Machine Building, Hydromet of the USSR, put all the cards one on top of the other and then we will understand - there are no ecologically clean areas. How fashionable it is today to say: "From the word - absolutely!"
The Ministry of Emergency Situations decided to create, it seems, a sensation - they say it is not in vain that we are eating up the budget. In the Kara Sea, not only our military and representatives of science and industry regularly went to the reactors of the nuclear submarine, and the icebreaker "Lenin", even the "brothers and sisters" of Gretta Tumberg were taken on ships that went on such expeditions. As it is fashionable to say - monitoring was carried out regularly, even the stories of "Vesti Pomoria" were broadcast ... My dear Arkhangelsk region is not in vain in the country in first place in oncology. That industry, that forestry and agriculture, that the military crap, crap and, it seems, will crap. The explosion in the White Sea near Nyonoksa 1 years ago is the clearest example of this. People died (both scientists and the military), radiation of doctors in Arkhangelsk and Moscow and pilots hurt, radiation covered a huge territory of the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan. About how it was in Severodvinsk, I wrote on the site 2 or 2 times in the comments. For several days after the explosion, no one guarded the pontoons on the shore, fenced off, or decontaminated them. People neither in the village of Polygon Sopka, nor in Nyonoksa itself, not only were not evacuated before the tests on the train to Uyma station, as was always the case with the communist byaks in Morder - USSR, they were not even warned that the pontoons were ringing. People on boats went out to sea for fish, mushrooms - they picked berries, carrots, and other vegetables from the gardens ate, milk of cows and goats - they drank, kids, of course, pontoons - investigated ... The current in the White Sea carried water from Nenoksa to Severodvinsk, well, the White Sea has lived for a thousand years, this is how its currents are arranged ...

[Sergej1972]

In 1990, there was also the Soviet Navy.

[Roman070280]

And no one is shouting about the environment, as a few days ago about the discharge of water into the ocean from Fukushima ..
Although, it seems to me that swimming in this sea is definitely not more useful than near the shores of the Japs ..

[Radius]

The same to me - a sensation! They knew who was supposed to and did not forget about this reactor. Moreover, this water area was constantly monitored for leaks. When the time came, they raised him to the surface. So, it is quite an ordinary event.

[fa2998]

And before "plumping" overboard is it difficult to write down the coordinates? Or navigators were not? Now they make up cards for a lot of money!

[Peaceful SEO]

Quote: Intruder

Siberia and Siberians will receive nothing but nuclear waste on their land

Taxes, jobs? Or does it not count and all pennies should be distributed? So they will not be happy to receive money instead of a pension :))