Russian atomic stockpile at risk

[local 12 proud]

"This wouldn't be a thermonuclear or atomic explosion as in a bomb, but the outcome is just as bad," he told the Scotsman. "Remember Chernobyl? Well if you had the right weather conditions, the right wind pattern, this would mean a radioactive cloud drifting over Scotland and the rest of the UK."

"This is what happens when a superpower decays – people in Britain talk about what to do with our nuclear waste, but what should concern us far more is the way the Russians are dealing with theirs," he said.

"We are sitting on a powder keg with a fuse that is burning, but we don't know how long that fuse is," said Nikitin.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article....RTICLE_ID=55992

 

[delldude]

I thought I read somewhere about several of their subs on the bottom with nuclear fuel aboard and hulls decaying...thought the US was going to help recover the fuel.

n recent years, the Russian navy has experienced sharp budget cuts, and many ships and submarines have been decommissioned. The coastline near Murmansk is littered with the rusting hulks of about 100 nuclear-powered subs that have fallen into disuse. Reprocessing of spent fuel from the vessels has been slow, due to lack of funds. Radiation leaks are so common that the local Murmansk radio station broadcasts radiation-level reports along with the weather.