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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
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• 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 645 November-ZhMT

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This submarine was based on the hull of the November class submarines, and belonged to the Northern Fleet. Only one Project 645 ZhMT submarine was ever built.

Technical Data [246]

Length:	109.8 m	Displacement:	3 420/4 380 tons
Beam:	8.3 m	Maximum Depth:	300 m
Draught:	5.85 m	Hull:	Low magnetic steel
Speed:	30 knots	Crew:	105

Only a few years after construction, cracks were discovered in the metal-hull due to corrosion between the crystals. Apart from a few changes in the bow, the Project 645 submarine is identical to submarines of the November class in order to shorten the construction time.

Compartments: 9

1. Torpedo room
2. Accumulators and Living accommodation
3. Control room
4. Reactor compartment
5. Turbo and diesel generators, cooling and auxiliary machinery
6. Turbines
7. Generator

Reactors [247]

Two VT-1 type liquid metal (lead-bismuth) cooled reactors with a capacity of 146 MWt and shaft power of 35 000 hp. A test reactor of the same type as that used on board K-27 was in use at Obninsk as early as 1955. A new steam-boiler was developed especially for this submarine that required considerably less electrical power in the start phase and during cooling. Subsequently the capacity of the batteries was only 75% of those on board the November class submarines.

Naval Architect

V.N. Peregrudov, SKB-143.

Construction Yard

The Project 645 ZhMT was built in Severodvinsk.

Individual Submarines

K-27,
factory no. 601. The only one built of this class. Laid down on June 15, 1958. Launched on April 1, 1962 and commissioned to the Northern Fleet on October 30, 1963. Based at Zapadnaya Litsa. There was a serious accident involving the reactor and 9 people died of radiation injuries. Attempts to repair the reactor were futile; hence the entire submarine was scuttled at a depth of 50 meters in Stepovogo Bay at Novaya Zemlya in 1981, see picture below.[248]

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