The Komsomolets Disaster ..!! The Cold Era Russian Submarine, still a threat to World Environment

The Komsomolets Disaster ..!!  The Cold Era Russian Submarine, still a threat to the World Environment ....!! Sometimes I wonde...

The Komsomolets Disaster ..!!  The Cold Era Russian Submarine, still a threat to the World Environment ....!!

Sometimes I wonder whether the modern-day technology is a gift to humanity or its a curse to us. We never thought what technology or modern warfare could affect the environment, and lead us to the path of Global destruction.

On today's article, we will see how our past can affect our present and future.

Komsomolets the one of its kind, the most advanced submarine of its time was launched in May 1983 in Severodvinsk, a closed Soviet city on the Barents Sea with the world's largest shipyard. She was 400 feet long, 37 feet high and 27 feet in a beam with a submerged displacement of 8,000 tons-- a huge sub indeed. Komsomolets had two nuclear reactors, long thought to be of revolutionary design (liquid-metal coolant) but water-cooled. Its inner pressure hull was titanium, light and durable, making it the world's deepest diving submarine, and the operating depth below 3,000 feet was far below that of the best of US subs. It was manned by about 70 men and could carry a mix of torpedoes and cruise missiles with conventional or nuclear warheads 
Thirty years ago Soviet-era submarine 'Komsomolets' sank at the bottom of the Norwegian Sea. 

Recently analyzers are worried by examining its debris. The submarine is circulating 8 million times than the normal radioactive radiation.
Experts have recently tested the ''Komsomolets'  under the 5500 feet below sea level with the help of a remote powered device.

After the investigation of the Norwegen Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, the submergence dump of the submarine has caused high radioactive radiation to seawater. Maximum 800 becquerel (Bq) per liter.


Where the average level is 0.001 becquerel (bq)  per liter, Hilda Alice Heldal, head of the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research, Norway's investigative team, said: "The radiation levels are more than usual. Still, the situation is not very serious.
There are two nuclear warheads and a nuclear reactor in the four hundred feet long debris. Norway and Russia are continuing to monitor the 'Komsomolets' periodically. Measured levels of radioactive radiation. In particular, how much pollution is spreading in seawater from the debris?
In the '90s or even in 2007, Russian experts reported that radiation levels were deficient. According to Heldal, radioactive radiation did not surprise the rise in this way. Said, "The radioactive cesium is easily mixed with water in the depths of the Norwegian Sea. There are full of fish in the area.

The test showed that the dangerous effects of Norwegian fish or c-food have minimal impact. "The reason is also explained by Heldal. In his words, "in the water of the Norwegian Sea, there is minimum sizium levels. The debris is also deeply covered. Syzymotals' circulation is rapidly dissolving in water. "
The word ' Komsomolets ' means the members of the Young Communist League. The Russian nuclear submarine was created in 1983 by Severodvinsk. At the time it was the most powerful (deepest diving submarine) submarine. Apart from atomic weapons, it was capable of launching any weapon.
Sixty-nine naval workers were working in 'Komsomolets' In 1989, and there was a fire in the submarine under the profound sea observation of 39 days. The 7th April ended in the fire. Forty-two workers died.


This month, a joint force of Norway and Russia made video cameras with the help of a remote-controlled device. A short-length film has already made. It has shown that the torpedoes still fitted on the debris.