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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 667 B (Murena) - Delta-I

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	Northern Fleet	Pacific Fleet	Total
In service	2	9	11
Inactive	7	0	7
Dismantled	0	0	0
Number			18

Technical Data

Length:	139 m	Displacement:	7 800/10 000 tons
Beam:	11.7 m	Maximum Depth:	550 m
Draught:	8.4 m	Hull:	Low magnetic steel
Speed:	26 knots	Crew:	120

Reactor

Two pressurised water reactors, model OK-700 with a VM-4 type reactor core generating 2 x 90 MWt. Shaft power 2 x 20 000 hp. There are 250 fuel assemblies.

Naval Architect

S.N. Kovalov, SKB-18.

Nuclear Weapons

Twelve (12) RSM-40/R-29 O type missiles (SS-N-12).

Construction Yard

Ten (10) Delta-I submarines were built at Severodvinsk in the period from 1971 to 1976. Another eight were built in Komsomolsk from 1974 to 1977.

Base

Gremikha.

Compartments: 10

Individual Submarines

Northern Fleet:

K-279,
factory no. 310. Laid down in 1971; launched in 1972 and commissioned to the Northern Fleet on December 22, 1972.[218]
K-447,
factory no. 311. Commissioned in 1973; still in use today.[219] The submarine was defuelled in 1994 and the spent fuel transferred to the service ship PM-63 in Severodvinsk.
K-450,
factory no. 312. Commissioned in 1973.
K-385,
factory no. 324. Commissioned in 1974.
K-457,
factory no. 325. Commissioned in 1974. Still in service.[220]
K-465,
factory no. 326. Commissioned in 1974.
K-460,
factory no. 337. Commissioned in 1975.
K-472,
factory no. 338. Commissioned in 1975.

Pacific Fleet:

K-336.
Commissioned in 1974.
K-417.
Commissioned in 1974.
K-477.
Commissioned in 1975.
K-497.
Commissioned in 1975.
K-500.
Commissioned in 1976.
K-512.
Commissioned in 1976.
K-523.
Commissioned in 1977.
K-530.
Commissioned in 1977.
K-171,
factory no. 340. Commissioned in 1976; transferred from the Northern Fleet to the Pacific Fleet later in the same year.

Footnotes

[218] Kransya Zvezda, January 28. 1995. Return
[219] Mormul, N., Note, 1995. Return
[220] Ibid. Return

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