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2019-07-09 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Stricken Russian Nuke Sub Crew Prevented ‘Planetary Catastrophe’

[MSN] The 14 sailors who died during a fire last week on a nuclear-powered Russian military submarine prevented a "planetary catastrophe," a top naval officer said at their funeral, according to media reports.

Captain Sergei Pavlov, an aide to the commander of Russia’s navy, praised the heroism of the men, who died as they battled to stop the fire from spreading in the submersible.

"With their lives, they saved the lives of their colleagues, saved the vessel and prevented a planetary catastrophe," he said at the funeral Sunday attended by the navy chief according to the Fontanka news service.

Kremlin front man Dmitry Peskov said he wasn’t aware of the official’s comments but said there was no indication the incident posed a broader threat. "As for the reactor, there are no problems with that," he said on a conference call.

Russia broke three days of secrecy July 4 and confirmed that the stricken underwater research vessel was nuclear-powered. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told President Vladimir Putin

...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
in a meeting shown on state TV that the nuclear reactor on board the vessel had been completely sealed off.

Posted by Fred 2019-07-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Big whoop - we're all gonna die in 11 years, seven months anyway from 'climate change', according to AOC.

Posted by Raj 2019-07-09 00:48|| 2019-07-09 00:48|| Front Page Top

#2 .....prevented a planetary catastrophe,"

Something akin to the seldom discussed, above ground nuclear testing of the 50's and 60's ?

Posted by Besoeker 2019-07-09 02:43|| 2019-07-09 02:43|| Front Page Top

#3 So Russia admits that the technology used in a deployed weapons system is a potential "planetary catastrophe"!

Doesn't that imply that they are engaging in doomsday tech for normal operation and should be shut down by the rest of the people on this planet?

Posted by 3dc 2019-07-09 03:12|| 2019-07-09 03:12|| Front Page Top

#4 a non functioning reactor on the bottom of the sea

there are a bunch of these already

most recently a Russian nuke sank in 2003 pretty close to a port

Posted by lord garth 2019-07-09 07:19|| 2019-07-09 07:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Wouldn't be carrying one of those tsunami inducing torpedoes?

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-07-09 07:50|| 2019-07-09 07:50|| Front Page Top

#6 "It was going to be Chernobyl Lite™, no, no, a "planetary catastrophe, I tells you! But we stopped it! So stop keep bringing up that Chernobyl thing, okay???" --Russian spokesrobot (/sarc)

Posted by magpie 2019-07-09 14:33|| 2019-07-09 14:33|| Front Page Top

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