Town ‘ContaminatedNewsworthy events Moscow – A Russian journalist has uncovered evidence of anotherSoviet nuclear catastrophe, which killed 10 sailors and contaminated an entire town.Background Events Yelena Vazrshavskya is the first journalist to speak to people whowitnessed the explosion of a nuclear submarine at the naval base of shkotovo – 22near Vladivostock.The accident, which occurred 13 months before the Chernobyl disaster, spreadradioactive fall-out over the base and nearby town, but was covered up by officials of the Soviet Union. Residents were told the explosion in the reactor of the Victor-classsubmarine during a refit had been a ‘thermal’ and not a nuclear explosion. And thoseinvolved in the clean up operation to remove more than 600 tones of contaminatedmaterial were sworn to secrecy.Sumber InformasiSources A board of investigators was later to describe it as the worst accident in thehistory of the Soviet Navy.