In 1989, the Komsomolets sank off the Norwegian coast. Four years later, the BBC reported on plans to seal in its torpedoes' toxic plutonium.

Years later and studies continue to show that radioactivity is higher than normal around the vessel A sunken Cold War nuclear submarine continues to leak radioactive material into the Norwegian Sea, a ...

A sunken Cold War-era nuclear submarine is quietly leaking radioactive material into the deep, dark waters at the bottom of the Norwegian Sea, a survey has determined. The Soviet K-278 Komsomolets ...

Thirty-seven years ago, the Soviet nuclear submarine Komsomolets plummeted to the seafloor. It settled a mile beneath the surface of the Norwegian Sea, resting in absolute darkness and under crushing ...

K-278 Komsomolets sank on April 7, 1989 after a fire broke out on board. Forty-two of the 69 crew members perished, and the boat sank to the depths with its onboard nuclear reactors and two torpedoes ...

April 25, 2026: After 37 years on, there are no signs of leakage from plutonium warheads. Two recent studies of seabed sediments near the sunken nuclear submarine Komsomolets/K-278 in the Norwegian ...

A Russian freighter that went down off the Spanish coast in late 2024 likely had two submarine nuclear reactors stashed in its hold, with North Korea as the suspected drop-off point, according to a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A plume of radioactive material seeping from Komsomolets. (Gwynn et al., PNAS, 2026) A sunken Cold War-era nuclear submarine is ...