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• 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

1.2 Organisation and responsibilities

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Organisation and responsibilities¹⁵

The commander in chief of the Russian Navy is Chief Commander Feliks N. Gromov. The commander in chief of the Northern Fleet is Admiral Oleg A. Yerofeev. The Northern Fleet is organised into departments, each of which has a special area of responsibility. For example, the Technical Department with its offices in the Rosta district of Murmansk is responsible for day to day storage of nuclear waste and for the security of the nuclear submarines at Kola, whether in service or inactive.

The Russian Navy is responsible for the nuclear submarines as long as they are in active service or are moored at one of the Northern Fleet's naval bases. The Navy is also responsible for the three shipyards that service and maintain the nuclear submarines. Otherwise, the state committee for the defence industry (Goskomoboronprom) is in charge of the other shipyards. The Russian Ministry for Atomic Energy (Minatom) is responsible for the nuclear fuel that is used in the naval reactors, from the delivery of new fuel to the base to the receipt and reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel. The Russian Ministry of Transport is responsible for the freight of new and spent nuclear fuel by railroad.

In addition to the organisations mentioned above, there are a number of other state organisations and ministries which are responsible for ensuring that prescribed procedures are adhered to and correctly executed. The Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Public Health, the Radiation Protection Authority Gosatomnadzor and the state committee for monitoring the public health along with the Ministry of Defence are responsible for working out nuclear safety regulations on board Navy vessels and storage/processing facilities for radioactive waste. The Ministry of Defence's internal regulatory authority is responsible for ensuring that these regulations are adhered to. In earlier years, Gosatomnadzor had partial responsibility for monitoring nuclear safety at the naval bases. (See Chapter 4). The Ministry for Situations of Emergencies is charged with averting and mitigating disasters.

In later years, a number of semi-private commercial companies have also appeared, especially in work entailing the dismantling of obsolete submarines and other naval vessels.

15. Kværner Moss Technology as., Disposal of Russian nuclear submarines, January 19. 1996.

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