Radiation Levels of Sunken Russian Nuclear Submarine 100,000 Times Higher Than Normal

Newsweek ^ | 7/10/19 | David Brennan

[taxcontrol]

I was thinking that if this was Japan instead of Norway that we would soon be seeing Godzilla in real life.

[Red Badger]

And more romantic, since you can eat it in the dark!..............

[blueunicorn6]

“Godzira! Godzira!”

Wait.....this is Norway.

“Godzira, uff da! Godzira, uff da!”

[Who is John Galt?]

In fact, I’ve long believed that the safest (and cheapest) way to dispose of nuclear waste is to dump it on some deep area of the sea floor. Instead, we spend many billions of dollars and decades of time trying to get approval to bury it in a salt mine in Nevada.

I used to work with a professional engineer, who had formerly been employed by the EPA. IIRC, one of his favorite sayings was:

"The solution for polution is dilution!"

;^)

[KC_Lion]

Well that’s not great but it’s not horrifying.

[infool7]

dispose of nuclear waste is to dump it on some deep area of the sea floor.

Is it still waste,

if it can be re-conditioned/constituted and

used again to fuel a reactor?

Galen Winsor

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[wally_bert]

Make more sense to store it on the moon anyway. The economics of Gerry Anderson.

Get the waste in the big black and fling towards the sun and keep your moon in orbit.

[MrEdd]

Oh really?

What is the normal radiation level of a sunken Russian nuclear submarine?

[C19fan]

Assuming “normal” is defined as the natural background radiation, 100,000 times would be equivalent to radiation levels recorded in vicinity of Fukushima reactors during the accident there.

[Celtic Conservative]

“Why is my lutefisk glowing?”

From what I’ve heard about how they prepare it, that’s completely normal.

CC

[Red Badger]

LOL!.................

[CrazyIvan]

Will thermoclines keep it down there?

[Alas Babylon!]

With three eyes.

[McGruff]

the safest (and cheapest) way to dispose of nuclear waste is to dump it on some deep area of the sea floor.

Don't give the Ruskies any ideas of what to do with their aging nuke subs.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Sounds like the mini-sub stuck its sample tube up close to the leak at the vent. Unless every other sample was taken in the same place, one high sample can’t be compared to “normal “.

[Rock N Jones]

But two mouths to eat with !

If history teaches us anything, it’s that it does not teach us to listen?

[BBQToadRibs]

[lurk]

Too much radiation on a Russian sub. Unexpected.

[Howie66]

So what is the normal radiation level for a sunken Russian nuclear sub?

[Justa]

The whole point of land storage of nuclear waste is containment. If Caesium-137 is in ocean water it can go anywhere, including your next meal. It’s a gamma emitter. People don’t have 14 feet of water in their bodies to block it. Think about that. Yeah, with sufficient dilution maybe they’ll only get a little bit of cancer. /s