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Publish date: April 24, 2007
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According to the shipyard’s spokeswoman Nadezhda Shcherbinina, the nuclear submarine B-524 Zapadnaya Litsa has been removed from service and is now ready for dismantlement. “According to the G8-Global Partnership of 2002, Canada will finance the dismantlement of 12 Russian nuclear submarines that are not equipped with intercontinental ballistic missiles,” she said. Ottawa is going to pay about 100 million Canadian dollars for the dismantling.
The nuclear submarine B-524 “Zapadnaya Zvezda” (a Victor-III class submarine according to NATO classification) is part of the project “Sсhuka” and was built at the Admiralteysky shipyard in St. Petersburg in 1977. Originally, 3 submarines of this kind were built, with a length of 102 m and a displacement of up to 6.990 tons.
An accident aboard numerous Volgoneft oil tankers in the Kerch in mid December clearly show what can happen to aged ships when they are operated in bad weather—and when economic and military objectives are prioritized over the lives of crews and environmental safety.
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution and climate change.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
A visit last week by Vladimir Putin and a Kremlin entourage to Astana, Kazakhstan sought in part to put Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, on good footing with local officials.