Town contaminted
Nesworthy event
Moscow a russian journalist has uncovered evidence of another soviet nuclear catastrophe which
killed 10 sailors and contaminated an entire town
Background/elaboration
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 vlabivostock.
the accident which occurred 13 months before the chaernobyl diaster spread radioactiv fall-ou over thebase and nearby town but was covered up by officialsof the soviet union
residents were told the explosion in thereactor of the victor class submarrine during a refit had been athermai and not a nuclearexplosion andthose invoolved in the clean up operationn to remove more than 600 tonesof contaminated material were sworn to secrecy