What If: No radioactive threat after fire at submarine in Severodvinsk

Itar-Tass reported No radioactive threat after fire at submarine in Severodvinsk

A fire that broke out on a submarine that is being scrapped at the Severodvinsk shipyard poses no radiation threat, spokeswoman for the Zvezdochka shipyard Tatyana Shcherbinina told Tass Thursday.

This is very good news! Consider that an organization whose shipyards seem regularly unable to prevent sinking, setting ablaze and polluting its waterways with nuclear submarine hulks still manages to prevent the even more difficult and important task of containing the spread of radioactive contamination. How is it that a radiation leak is prevented by the same organization that permits the other casualties? Are the journalists biased? Thank goodness jounalists must be universally certified in minimal competency requirements for the subjec t matter they report.

The heavy nuclear powered submarine "Akula" (Typhoon) series number 713 has been scrapped. Good work! (Unofficial artist's rendering depicted with apologies to my slavic friends).