Monthly Highlights from the Russian Arctic, October 2024
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.
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Publish date: March 5, 2004
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In the end of last year the sub conducted successful sea trials and launched a testing missile in December. The submarine was based in Severodvinsk since 1989 and only recently Russia found the funds to complete the upgrade. In June 2002 the nuclear cruiser was taken out of the dock. Dmitry Donskoy was upgraded to the fourth generation submarine. The submarine received new equipment, control systems, weaponry and more reliable life-support systems.
Some media sources claim, the submarine has not entered active service yet due to the lack of the modern missiles. However, the sub might leave for its permanent base in Zapadnaya Litsa on the Kola Peninsula in the second half of this year.
The submarine was built at the Sevmash plant in 1982 and became the first Russian Typhoon submarine
Design Bureau Rubin (St Petersburg) developed third generation Typhoon (Akula) class submarine project 941. Sevmash built six Typhoons. The submarine has multi-hulled design, having two parallel main hulls, also called strong hulls, inside the light hull. Maximum diving depth is 400 m. Speed is 12 knots when surfaced and 27 knots when submerged. Typhoon is capable of spending 120 days at sea. The submarine is divided into 19 compartments and powered with two 190 megawatts nuclear reactors.
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.
Russia is formally withdrawing from a landmark environmental agreement that channeled billions in international funding to secure the Soviet nuclear legacy, leaving undone some of the most radioactively dangerous projects and burning one more bridge of potential cooperation with the West.