K-123
K-123 was a submarine of the Soviet Navy and belonged to the Alfa class (Project 705).
history
After the first boat of the Alfa class suffered massive reactor problems shortly after it was commissioned, further boats were manufactured with a modified reactor design. K-123 was the first of these new boats. She was laid down in 1975 in the admiralty shipyard SY 402 in Severodvinsk and put into service on December 26, 1977 as the first unit of her class.
When the boat was in the Barents Sea on August 8, 1982 , there was a leak in the radioactive primary circuit of the liquid metal-cooled reactor of the K-123 . Around two tons of the liquid metal leaked out and contaminated the reactor department. In 1982 the reactor was removed, and the installation of a new unit was not completed until eight years later. In 1991 the K-123 was put back into service, served from then on as a test ship and was decommissioned on July 31, 1996 for scrapping.
Individual evidence
- ^ Norman Polmar: Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of US and Soviet Submarines, 1945-2001. Brassey's, Dulles 2004, ISBN 978-1574885941 . Page 141.
- ↑ Polamar (2004), page 144.