In the early 1980s radioactive contamination started to leak from the fuel rods used in Russian nuclear submarines. To contain the problem for five years or so, the rods were encased in cement tanks and put into warehouses near the sea.
It seems as though Mother Nature has been working on these tanks over the past 20+ years. Salt water is now in the tanks and working its way to the 21,000 rods. When that happens, uranium particles will be released. Get enough of these particles and you will have an uncontrolled chain reaction of unknown destructive capacity.
This could happen tomorrow or years from now.
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One can only hope the situation has improved since 2002, as THIS article describes.
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