July 8, 1997 Russian Navy Russian Parliament believes international co-operation is necessary to speed-up submarine scrapping In the end of June, Russian parliament presented a resolution urging the government to speed up the decommissioning of the…
July 3, 1997 Nuclear Agreements, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Finnish processing facility to the Northern Fleet A mobile facility for pruification of liquid radioactive waste will be installed at Andreeva Guba shortly. The facility, which is…
July 2, 1997 Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel The Lepse project Docked at Atomflot in Murmansk city, retired service ship Lepse contains 640 spent nuclear fuel assemblies in bad condition. Protected…
July 1, 1997 Russian Navy The Navy blames the shipbuilding industry for malfunctioning submarines --Design failures and malfunctioning equipment are among the prime reasons to the Komsomolets accident and other accidents involving nuclear-powered submarines,…
July 1, 1997 Russian Navy Zvezda Yard employees blocked Trans-Siberian railway On June 30 the employees of Naval Yard Zvezda in the Russian Far East blocked the Trans-Siberian railway for several…
