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K-19: The Widowmaker
2002 · Film · 138 min
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
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Even if authentic, a modern nuclear sub movie just isn't going to have the same feel. I suppose you could cite K-19: The Widowmaker though that's relatively old at this point as well.
I live near the middle of the area destroyed in the Halifax Explosion.
It was pretty significant, but didn't obliterate the whole town. The Richmond district (which is in the east part of the Halifax North End) was almost completely wiped out, almost 2000 people died and 9000 Haligonians were injured out of a population of 65,000.
If you ever watch the Harrison Ford movie, K-19: The Widowmaker, you'd see the area of the Halifax North End that was affected, it was the location for shots in the film that stood for the Soviet-era Sevmash shipyard.
The other obvious advantage to having a light water reactor on a submarine is that water is something you can easily find a lot of out in the ocean.
Well, you have to at least de-salinate the water and filter it before you use it in the reactor. If, in an emergency, you need to pump in salt water, you're going to ruin the equipment via corrosion.
The movie 'K-19 The Widowmaker' got into this a bit.