A group of Russian and foreign experts Thursday began monitoring radiation levels at the site of a 2003 incident involving a Russian nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea, a Russian Navy official said. The K-159, a November class nuclear submarine with 800 kilograms (about 1,700 pounds) of spent nuclear fuel onboard, sank in 2003 while being towed to Polyarny, in northwest Russia, for decommissioning. Nine members of the 10-man submarine crew died.
"The goal of the operation is to check radiation levels onboard the sunken submarine and the surrounding area in order to develop plans for a possible salvage operation in the future," a spokesman for Russia's Northern Fleet said.
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