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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 675, 675 M, 675 MKV - Echo-II

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	Northern Fleet	Pacific Fleet	Total
In service	0	0	0
Inactive	11	18	29
Dismantled	0	0	0
Number			29

Technical Data

Length:	115.4 m	Displacement:	4 500/5 760 tons
Beam:	9.3 m	Maximum depth:	300 m
Draught:	7.1 m	Hull:	low magnetic steel
Speed:	28 knots	Crew:	137

Compartments: 10 [201]

1. Torpedo room
2. Accumulators and officer's mess
3. Engineering and radio room
4. Reactor control room
5. Diesel generator and fresh water generator
6. Reactor compartment
7. Turbines
8. Electrical motor
9. Accommodations, kitchen
10. Torpedoes and steering systems

Reactor

Two pressurised water reactors, model VM-A with a capacity of 2 x 70 MWt (2 x 17 500 hp). The reactors ran at 100% power starting with submarine K-172.

Naval Architects:

P.P. Pustyntsev.

Construction Yard

Sever Machine Building Factory and Komsomolsk-na-Amur.

Individual submarines

Northern Fleet:

K-166,
first registered as K-71. factory no. 530. This was the first Echo-II submarine to be built.
K-144,
first registered as K-104, factory no. 531.
K-86,
factory no. 532.
K-47,
factory no. 534. See chapter 8 for accident.
K-1,
factory no. 535.
K-428,
formerly registered as K-28, factory no. 536.
K-74,
factory no. 537.
K-22,
Krasnogvardeets, factory no. 538.
K-35,
factory no. 539.
K-125,
factory no. 542.
K-192,
factory no. 533. [202] At present the submarine is moored at the naval shipyard Shkval in Polyarny with a severely damaged reactor following an accident on June 25-26, 1989.[203] Pressurised air is pumped into the hull to keep the submarine afloat. The fuel in the undamaged reactor will be removed once the radiation has fallen to a safe level. There are also plans to remove the fuel from the damaged reactor.

Pacific Fleet:

K-127,
registered until 1968 as K-7.
K-172 K-175 K-184 K-189 K-135 K-128
K-108 K-116 K-90 K-94 K-48
K-56.
Was transferred to the Pacific Fleet on September 9, 1966. Suffered a reactor accident on June 13, 1973 in which 27 members of the crew died.
K-557,
formerly registered as K-57.
K-431,
formerly registered as K-31. K-134, formerly registered as K-34 Kefal.
K-10 K-23

Footnotes

[201] Mormul, N, Note, 1995. Return
[202] Problems with decommisoning of nuclear submarines and protection of the environment i the arctic areas., page 26-27, Severodvinsk, March 15.-16. 1995. Return
[203] Yablokov, A. V., Facts and problems related to radioactive waste disposals in seas adjacent to the territory of the Russian Federation, Moscow 1993. Return

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