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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

Project 658, 658 M - Hotel

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	Northern Fleet	Pacific Fleet	Total
In service	0	0	0
Inactive	6	2	8
Dismantled	0	0	0
Number			8

Technical Data

Length:	114.1 m (127 m)	Displacement:	4 030/5 000 tons
Beam:	9.2 m	Maximum Depth:	300 m
Draught:	7.31 m (7.1 m)	Crew:	128
Speed:	26 knots	Hull:	Low magnetic steel.

Compartments: 10

Reactors

Two pressurised water reactors, Model VM-A, 2 x 70 MWt (2 x 17 500 hp).

Naval Architect

Principal builder: S.N. Kovalev.

Construction Yard

The submarines were built at shipyard no. 402, Sevmash Machine Building Factory in Molotovsk (now Severodvinsk) in the period from 1958 to 1964. In the period between 1963 and 1967, the Northern Fleet's six Hotel class submarines were modified in Severodvinsk and D-4 type missile complexes were installed to carry R-21 missiles with a range of 1 400 km.[191] The two Hotel class submarines belonging to the Pacific Fleet were rebuilt into torpedo submarines during the same period at the ship building yard Bolshoy Kamen in Shkotovo.

Bases:

The Hotel class submarines belonging to the Northern Fleet are now laid up in Oleniya Bay at naval shipyard no. 10 Shkval, at Gremikha and at the naval shipyard in Murmansk.[192]

Individual Submarines

Northern Fleet:

K-19,
factory no. 901. Laid down on October 17, 1958. Launched on April 8, 1959. Commissioned on November 12, 1960. On July 4, 1961, there was a reactor accident resulting in the removal and replacement of the reactor compartment (no. 901).[193] This work was carried out in Severodvinsk in the period from 1962 to 1964. The two damaged reactors with their fuel were dumped in Abrosimova Bay in the Kara Sea in 1965.[194] The submarine suffered a further reactor accident on February 24, 1972 in wich 28 of the crew lost their lifes.[195] After this accident, K-19 was rebuilt as a communications submarine. Because of her numerous accidents, K-19 received the nickname Hiroshima. The submarine was decommissioned in 1991 and is now based in Polyarny.[196]
K-33,
factory no. 902. Commissioned on July 5, 1961. Decommissioned sometime between 1988 and 1990.
K-16,
factory no. 905. Commissioned on June 15, 1963. Decommissioned sometime between 1988 and 1990.
K-40,
factory no. 904. Commissioned on December 28, 1962. From 1977, the submarine was used as a communications vessel with the ship's registration number KC-40. Decommissioned sometime between 1988 and 1990.
K-149
Ukrainsky Komsomolets, factory no. 907. Commissioned on February 12, 1964 and decommissioned sometime between 1988 and 1990.
K-145,
factory no. 906. Commissioned on December 19, 1963. After a few years, the vessel was modified to carry six ballistic missiles. The submarine was decommissioned sometime between 1988 and 1990, and is now moored at the Sevmorput naval shipyard in Murmansk.[197]

Pacific Fleet:

K-55,
factory no. 903. Commissioned on August 12, 1962; now laid up in Pavlovsk.[198]
K-178,
factory no. 908. Commissioned on June 30, 1964 (?). At the North Pole for the first time on September 29, 1963. Now laid up in Pavlovsk.[199]














Footnotes

[191] Krasnaya Zvezda, January 28, 1995, with reference to the magazine Russkoe orushiye (Russian Weapons) which in turn refers to the book Post-War History of the Soviet Navy (1945-1991) by Rear-Admiral Georgy Kostev. Return
[192] Kværner Moss Technology a.s., Disposal of Russian Nuclear Submarines, January 19, 1996. Return
[193] Pravda, July 1, 1991, and Krasnaya Zvezda, December 26, 1992. Return
[194] Yablokov, A. V., Facts and problems related to radioactive waste disposals in seas adjacent to the territory of the Russian Federation, Moscow 1993. Return
[195] Osipenko, L., Zhiltsov, L., and Mormul, N., Atomnaya Podvodnaya Epopeya, 1994. Return
[196] Mormul, N. Notes, 1995. Return
[197] Ibid. Return
[198] Handler, Joshua, Greenpeace, Radioactive Waste Situation in the Russian Pacific Fleet, Nuclear Waste Disposal Problems, SubmarineDecommissioning, Submarine Safety, and Security of Naval Fuel, Page 44, Washington D.C., October 27, 1994. Return
[199] Ibid. Return

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