How do you tell a sailor from the Northern Fleet -

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mpartments on the submarinethis was the cleanest.
The deck and bulkheads were spotless white-painted steel. The reason was obvious: the
smallest leak of reactor coolant had to be instantly visible even if all the detectors failed.
Svyadov climbed an aluminum ladder affixed to the side of the reactor vessel to run the
detachable probe from his counter over every welded pipe joint. The speaker-annunciator on the
hand-held box was turned to maximum so that everyone in the compartment could hear itand
Svyadov had an earpiece plugged in for even greater sensitivity. A youngster of twenty-onehe
was nervous. Only a fool would feel entirely safe looking for a radiation leak. There is a joke in
the Soviet Navy: How do you tell a sailor from the Northern Fleet? He glows in the dark. It had
been a good laugh on the beachbut not now. He knew that he was conducting the search
because he was the youngestleast experiencedand most expendable officer. It was an effort to
keep his knees from wobbling as he strained to reach all over and around the reactor piping.
The counter was not entirely silentand Svyadov's stomach cringed at each click generated by
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