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Untold Story Of Sub Leaks

The Soviet Union's submarine fleet was plagued by nuclear accidents a report said Wednesday. From the late 1970s until 1986, there were six confirmed nuclear accidents in the Pacific Fleet, the report by Greenpeace International said.


The report included details of a previously unreported nuclear accident in 1986 aboard a submarine in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam.


It said the submarine's crew used the wrong additive for the nuclear reactor's coolant system. "This caused the submarine's radiation detectors to jump, and the crew thought a meltdown was happening and raised the alarm," the report said.


"The accident was doubly dangerous because since the submarine was on combat duty, it was carrying both nuclear-armed torpedoes and nuclear sea-launched cruise missiles," Greenpeace said.




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