Word: kursk
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...nuclear submarine fleet; up to 100 obsolete, rusting vessels with nuclear reactors and fuel still aboard are scattered along the Kola Peninsula coastline, simply because Russia can't afford the cost of decommissioning them. But nobody would have expected the accident, when it came, to strike the Kursk, a spanking new Oscar II-class nuclear sub that only went into service in 1995. Yet it is the Kursk that languishes 350 feet down on the ocean floor, stricken after what the Russian navy calls a "big and serious collision." And despite a dramatic rescue effort, Moscow rates its chances...