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Town Contaminated
NEWSWORTHY EVENTMoscow: A Russian journalist has Moscow: A Russian journalist has uncovered evidence of another Soviet uncovered evidence of another Soviet nuclear catastrophe, which killed 10 nuclear catastrophe, which killed 10 sailors and contaminated an entire townsailors and contaminated an entire town
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Velena Vazrshavskya is the first journalist to
speak to people who witnessed the explotion of
a nuclear submarine at the nava bas of
shkotovo – 22 near Vladivostock.
The accident, which occurred 13 months before
the Chaernobyl disaster, spread radioactive fall
– out over the base and nearby town, but was
covered up by officials of the Soviet Union.
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Residents were told the explosion in the
reactor of the Victor class submarine
during a refit had been a thermal and not
a nuclear explosion. And those involved
in the clean up operation to remove
more than 600 tones of contaminated
material were sworn to secrecy.
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A board of investigators was later to describe it as the worst accident in the history of the Soviet Navy.
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