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During the 1960s, both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. lost two subs. Neither side is known to have lost a sub during the '70s, though the Soviets had several fatal accidents, some of the deaths caused by radiation poisoning from reactor malfunctions. Then the Soviet navy ran into a streak of bad luck. In 1983 a Charlie I class with a crew of 100 went down in the Pacific off the Kamchatka peninsula. In 1986 a Yankee I-class boat was lost east of Bermuda. With the sinking of the Mike-class vessel in April, a prototype that is believed...
...Savannah River reactor, the only fire-fighting equipment was a garden hose. Managers left the sprinkler system off in another unit for fear that if activated it might get computers and records...
...fraud in the disposal and incineration of plutonium-laden wastes. But what has environmental officials most puzzled is something they never expected to find even at trouble-prone Rocky Flats: traces of radioactive strontium and cesium that a nuclear chain reaction could produce -- even though there is no nuclear reactor at the site. The Environmental Protection Agency has demanded a study to determine how the mysterious isotopes got to Rocky Flats...
...start-up of low-power testing at Seabrook last week signaled that a fresh wave of pro-nuclear sentiment is stirring in Washington. The testing permit was the second granted in two months: the first went to Long Island's Shoreham nuclear plant, even though the reactor's owner had already decided to junk...
Since receiving its low-power license last month, the long-delayed $6 billion plant has been warming its reactor in preparation for a its first nuclear reaction...