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Publish date: September 14, 2005
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The plants chief engineer Oleg Frolov said to Interfax that the Rosatom Commission issued permission to unload spent nuclear fuel from retired Victor-III nuclear submarine (K-502), order 641, project 671 RTM. Canada sponsors the dismantlement of this submarine. K-502 entered active service December 31, 1980.
The preparation for the same operation is under way on Typhoon nuclear submarine (TK-12), project 941, order 713. The USA in the frames of CTR program sponsors the dismantlement of this submarine. Unloading is scheduled for December. In 2006, the submarine will be placed in the dry dock for further dismantlement. Then the empty reactor compartment will be shipped for storage to the Sayda bay on the Kola Peninsula. TK-12 was in active service from 1984 till 1996.
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.