
Moscow plans to wire seized Ukrainian nuclear plant to its own grid, says report
Moscow is building powerlines in Russian-occupied southeastern Ukraine to link the major nuclear power plant it seized as a prize of war to its own e...
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Publish date: April 1, 2005
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“We estimate that it will take until 2010 to dismantle decommissioned nuclear submarines,” Interfax quoted him saying. “But that is just for the submarines. Regarding the liquidation of all the harmful consequences of the nuclear fleet’s activity, it will take at least 15 or 20 years.” The main problem for Federal Nuclear Power Agency is to clean up coastal navy bases that have big amounts of liquid and solid radioactive waste from nuclear submarines stored on their territory, Antipov said.
Of the 250 nuclear submarines built by Russia and the Soviet Union, 195 have been decommissioned. All radioactive materials have been removed from 111 of these. It is expected that more submarines will be decommissioned off in the near future, according to Federal Nuclear Power Agency. “But these will be single vessels. There will not be such a fast rate of decommissioning as there was before,” Antipov said.
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