History | |
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Soviet Union | |
Name | K-431 |
Builder | Leninskiy Komsomol Shipyard, Komsomolsk-on-Amur |
Laid down | 11 January 1964 |
Launched | 8 September 1964 |
Commissioned | 30 September 1965 |
Decommissioned | 16 September 1987 |
Fate | Scrapped |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Echo-class submarine |
Displacement |
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Length | 115.4 m (378 ft 7 in) |
Beam | 9.3 m (30 ft 6 in) |
Draught | 7.4 m (24 ft 3 in) |
Propulsion | 2 × pressurized water-cooled reactors 70,000 hp (52 MW) each, 2 steam turbines, 2 shafts |
Speed |
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Range | 18,000–30,000 nmi (33,000–56,000 km; 21,000–35,000 mi) |
Endurance | 50 days |
Test depth | 300 m (984 ft) |
Complement | 104-109 men (including 29 officers) |
Armament |
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K-431 (Russian: К-431; originally the K-31) was a Soviet nuclear-powered submarine that had a reactor accident on 10 August 1985.[1] It was commissioned on 30 September 1965. The 1985 explosion occurred during refueling of the submarine at Chazhma Bay, Dunay, Vladivostok.[2] There were ten fatalities and 49 other people suffered radiation injuries. Time magazine has identified the accident as one of the world's "worst nuclear disasters".[1]