This article concludes a series of analytical publications on the largest nuclear accident in the history of the nuclear fleet, which occurred on August 10, 1985 on a submarine in the Chazhma Bay situated in the Primorsky Krai. The damaging factors of a thermal explosion of the nuclear reactor and their impact on people, structures, and watercraft are considered. Of note is a special feature stemming from, along with radiation, factors that are characteristic of a nuclear explosion, and estimates of their intensity are given.
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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 129, No. 3, pp. 171–178, September, 2020.
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Sarkisov, A.A., Vysotskii, V.L., Dzama, D.V. et al. Damaging Factors of a Nuclear Accident at the Nuclear Submarine K-431 in the Chazhma Bay. At Energy 129, 169–177 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-021-00730-x
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