Users Online Now:
2,012
(
Who's On?
)
Visitors Today:
1,445,610
Pageviews Today:
1,984,063
Threads Today:
493
Posts Today:
8,607
03:36 PM
Directory
Adv. Search
Topics
Forum
Back to Forum
Back to Thread
REPLY TO THREAD
Subject
BREAKING News! Nuclear LEAK on Russian icebreaker in Arctic sparks rescue mission!
User Name
Font color:
Default
Dark Red
Red
Orange
Brown
Yellow
Green
Olive
Cyan
Blue
Dark Blue
Indigo
Violet
Black
Font:
Default
Verdana
Tahoma
Ms Sans Serif
In accordance with industry accepted best practices we ask that users limit their copy / paste of copyrighted material to the relevant portions of the article you wish to discuss and no more than 50% of the source material, provide a link back to the original article and provide your original comments / criticism in your post with the article.
[quote:Anonymous Coward 1376790:MV8xNDc4MTMzXzI0NDIxOTQyXzIyQzZFQTc0] The five days to return home port is over. i Digg the internet to find new info but i cant find any update of the situation? To me russia is lying and try to hide something. [/quote]
Original Message
May 06, 2011 8:10AM
RUSSIA have launched an urgent rescue mission after one of its atomic-powered icebreakers developed a nuclear leak in the frozen seas of the Arctic and was forced to abandon its mission.
The Rosatomflot nuclear fleet said in a statement that an "insignificant increase in activity" had been detected on board its 21,000-tonne Taimyr icebreaker.
But the incident was serious enough to force the vessel to abandon its mission and begin a five-day journey back to its home port in the north-western city of Murmansk.
The agency also announced plans to shut down the reactor before the ship enters into port - a reversal of an initial statement saying that decision would be reached only if the situation got out of hand.
Officials stressed that their most immediate worry concerned the 23-year-old vessel's ability to navigate the rough icy sea of the Arctic.
"What we are most concerned about right now is movement along the waterways," the state-run RIA Novosti news agency quoted top Rosatomflot official Andrei Smirnov as saying.
The fleet official said another icebreaker was being dispatched to the region to help the Taimyr's journey back to port. But it was not clear how far it remained from the stricken craft.
The incident was reported in the Kara Sea - a part of the Arctic Ocean about 2000km east of Norway's border.
The Taimyr has a single 171-megawatt reactor that generates about one-third the energy of the Fukushima 1 reactor affected by the Japanese earthquake and tsunami disaster in March.
[
link to www.theaustralian.com.au
]
Pictures (click to insert)
General
Politics
Bananas
People
Potentially Offensive
Emotions
Big Round Smilies
Aliens and Space
Friendship & Love
Textual
Doom
Misc Small Smilies
Religion
Love
Random
View All Categories
|
Next Page >>