K-131 was a Project 675 ( NATO reporting name Echo II-class submarine ) of the Soviet Navy 's Northern Fleet , she was also redesignated K-192 .
11-491: (Redirected from K-131 ) K131 or K-131 may refer to: K-131 (Kansas highway) , a state highway in Kansas Soviet submarine K-131 , a submarine [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title formed as a letter–number combination. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
22-425: A displacement of 5,000 tons when surfaced and 6,000 tons when submerged, K-131 was 115 metres (377 ft) long and had a beam of 9 metres (30 ft) and a draft of 7.5 metres (25 ft). She was powered by two pressurized-water nuclear reactors generating 30,000 shaft horsepower (22,000 kW) through two propellers for a maximum speed of 20 to 23 knots (37 to 43 km/h; 23 to 26 mph). She
33-401: A pipe to help. All the cooling water went into the ocean, and its radioactivity levels were unknown. The service ship Amur , which had a nuclear waste processing plant on board, then arrived to assist K-131 . However, the heavily contaminated water caused Amur ′ s treatment plant to break down. How much nuclear waste leaked into the ocean has never been fully verified. After returning to
44-687: The Naval Yard in Polyarny defuelled the 37 years old K-5 submarine. Russian Shipyard Number 10 Russian Shipyard No. 10—Shkval ( Russian : Акционерного общества «10 ордена Трудового Красного Знамени судоремонтный завод» ) is located in Polyarny , Murmansk Oblast , Russia , on the outermost western side of the Murmansk Fjord . In the West, it is more often referred to by the name of
55-713: The Soviet Union, K-131 was anchored in Ara Bay . Then she was towed to Russian Shipyard No. 10—Shkval . She was renamed K-192. On June 25, 1989 a serious leak occurred in a cooling pipe. Photos of the evaporating cooling water coming out from the reactor compartment became front-page news in Norway. The submarine was then stationed at the Ara-guba Naval base on the Kola Peninsula. At the end of November 1996
66-495: The larger nuclear submarines then coming into service. It now includes tenders, service ships, dry docks, and two covered floating docks, as well as a self-propelled barge with 150-tonne payload, two onshore cranes with lifting capacity of 40 tonnes and 32 tonnes, and two floating cranes with lifting capacity of 30 tonnes and 25 tonnes. The yard employs about 3,000 workers, and covers 41,330 square metres (444,900 sq ft). Its docks total 550 metres (1,800 ft) in length. In
77-412: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=K131&oldid=1160534888 " Category : Letter–number combination disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Soviet submarine K-131 The Echo II class
88-536: The seventh compartment. Before it was extinguished, the fire had killed 13 men. The fire affected one of the two reactors, forcing the submarine to surface. Using K-131 ' s fresh water supplies, the submarine's crew managed to reduce the temperature in the burning compartments from 150 °C (302 °F) to 108 °C (226 °F), but by this time the Soviet cargo ship Konstantin Yuon had arrived and hooked up
99-483: The town than its official name. As the first nuclear-powered submarines were delivered to the Northern Fleet at the end of the 1950s, the yard was modified for docking and repair of these vessels. As Soviet Navy (and now Russian Navy ) nuclear vessels are decommissioned, they are laid up at Polyarny awaiting defueling and disposal. Around 1970, Shkval was reorganised and partially expanded in order to handle
110-541: Was a nuclear-powered cruise-missile submarine, which could carry up to eight anti-ship missiles , designed to strike any aircraft carrier -borne nuclear threat. The missiles could be either conventional or nuclear and all eight fired within twenty minutes. The submarine would need to be surfaced and carried an array of electronics, radar and sonar to feed data to the missile while en route to its target. K-131 also had six 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes forward and four 406 mm (16 in) torpedo tubes aft. With
121-589: Was manned by about 90 crew members. On 18 June 1984, while under the command of Captain First Rank E. Selivanov, K-131 suffered a catastrophic fire while on patrol in the Norwegian Sea off the Kola Peninsula . A short circuit in an electrical switchboard in the eighth compartment ignited the clothes of an electrical officer, and spread first to other equipment in that compartment, then into
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