Monthly Highlights from the Russian Arctic, October 2024
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Nuclear submarine 50 years of the USSR to be scrapped
Publish date: May 24, 2006
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Nuclear submarine 50 years of the USSR to be scrapped
Canada sponsors dismantlement of the Russian multipurpose submarine K-38.
Zvezdochka shipyard prepares to launch dismantling of K-38 multipurpose nuclear submarine, project 671 (Victor-I), Interfax reported. The submarine is placed in the floating dock where it should prepared for spent nuclear fuel unloading.
Multirpurpose nuclear submarine K-38 joined the Russian navy in 1967. It suffered two accidents in 1984 and 1985. K-38 will be the fifth nuclear submarine, dismantlement of which is sponsored by Canada in the frames of the Global Partnership Program, Interfax reported.
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Bellona Nuclear Digest. October 2024
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
Putin leaves Kazakhstan without deal to build nuclear plant
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.
Moscow snips last ties to cooperative nuclear cleanup agreement with West
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.