Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "When the USS Kitty Hawk collided with a Soviet submarine." video.

  1. They store all their waste in vast man-made lakes at a place called Mayak near the town of Kyshtym, if either of those two names ring a bell it's because there was a disaster there in 1957 when a spent fuel pool dried up and exploded. It was the largest nuclear accident until Chernobyl.
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  2. That and the white noise of being near a shipping lane.
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  3.  @PD-we8vf  I would assume that the International Atomic Energy Agency and Russia's own equivalent would keep an eye on what goes where, and I think the Russians wouldn't want to risk any material falling into the hands of Chechen rebels or any of Russia's other enemies in the Caucases since Moscow would be the target of any dirty bomb.
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  4. What on Earth are you talking about? How does a non-nuclear carrier leak anything nuclear?
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