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Navigation

• Introduction
• The Northern Fleet
• 1.1 History
• 1.2 Organisation and responsibilities
• 1.3 The Northern Fleet today
• 1.4 The future of the Northern Fleet
• Nuclear-powered vessels
• 2.1 Construction of nuclear powered submarines and
• 2.2 Technological development of nuclear-powered v
• 2.3 Development of naval reactors
• 2.4 Radiation risks in naval reactors
• Classification of nuclear powered naval vessels
• Project 627, 627 A (Kit) - November class
• Project 658, 658 M - Hotel
• Project 659, 659 T Echo-I Class
• Project 675, 675 M, 675 MKV - Echo-II
• Project 667 A (Nalim, Navaga) - Yankee Class
• Project 667 B (Murena) - Delta-I
• Project 667 BD (Murena M) - Delta-II
• Project 667 BDR (Kalmar) - Delta-III
• Project 667 BDRM (Delfin) - Delta- IV
• Project 670 A (Skat) - Charlie-I
• Project 670 M (Skat M) - Charlie-II
• Project 671, 671 V, 671 K (Yersy) - Victor-I Class
• Project 671 RT Victor-II Class
• Project 671 RTM (Shuka) - Victor-III Class
• Project 941 (Akula) - Typhoon
• Project 949 (Granit) - Oscar-I
• Project 949 A (Antey) - Oscar-II
• Project 945, 945 A, 945 B (Mars) - Sierra
• Project 971 (Sjuka-B) - Akula
• Project 885 - Severodvinsk
• Project 645 November-ZhMT
• Project 705, 705 K (Lira) - Alfa Class
• Project 661 (Anchar) - Papa Class
• Project 685 (Plavnik) - Mike Class
• Project 1851 - X-ray
• Project 1910 - Uniform
• Project 10831
• Project 1144 (Orlan) - Kirov
• Project 1941 (Titan) - Kapusta Class
• Service ships and special tankers
• 3.1 Service ships for liquid radioactive waste
• 3.2 Service ships for spent nuclear fuel
• Radioactive waste at the naval bases
• 4.1 The development of naval bases
• 4.2 Generation of radioactive waste and spent nucl
• 4.3 Zapadnaya Litsa
• 4.4 Vidyaevo
• 4.5 Sayda Bay
• 4.6 Gadzhievo
• 4.7 Severomorsk
• 4.8 Gremikha
• Naval yards
• 5.1 Economy and organisation
• 5.2 Navy yard no. 10 - Shkval
• 5.3 Navy yard no. 82 - Safonovo
• 5.4 Naval yard No. 35 - Sevmorput
• 5.5 Naval yard No. 85 - Nerpa
• 5.6 The Severodvinsk naval yards
• Decommissioning of nuclear submarines
• 6.1 Laid up nuclear submarines
• 6.2 Safe storage of nuclear submarines
• 6.3 Dismantling of submarines
• 6.4 Parties to the work of dismantling submarines
• 6.5 Stages in decommissioning
• 6.6 Radio ecological problems of dismantling
• Handling of spent fuel assemblies
• 7.1 Organisation and Responsibility
• 7.2 Russian Submarine Fuel
• 7.3 Transport containers
• 7.4 Transport Routes
• 7.5 Financial aspects
• Nuclear submarine accidents
• 8.1 Sunken nuclear submarines
• 8.2 Nuclear accidents
• 8.3 Fires resulting in loss of life
• 8.4 Causes of Accident
• Appendix
• References
• The Russian Northern Fleet - Short Version

Radioactive waste at the naval bases

The nuclear-powered ships of the Northern Fleet operate from five naval bases on the Kola Peninsula: Zapadnaya Litsa, Vidyaevo, Gadzhievo, Severomorsk and Gremikha. Some of these bases also have additional facilities such that there is a total of seven base sites for operational nuclear vessels. There are land-based storage facilities for spent fuel assemblies at two of these bases. Solid and liquid radioactive waste are stored at six of the bases. Furthermore, there are a number of technical service ships containing spent fuel assemblies and solid or liquid radioactive waste that serve the naval bases and shipyards. These service ships are described in Chapter 3. In addition, considerable amounts of radioactive waste have been stored at Kola Peninsula shipyards and in Severodvinsk. The nuclear submarines taken out of service are located at these shipyards. The shipyards are described in Chapter 5.

In the following we will briefly examine the development of the naval bases and the generation of radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, and give a short description of each of the naval bases. When we describe the bases, the number and classes of the nuclear submarines that are normally stationed at the base, are given. The numbers may vary over time, since the submarines often change bases at the completion of a tour of duty.