15 June 2004 19:18
Russian shipyard produces containers for spent nuclear fuel from submarines
Severodvinsk (Arkhangelsk Region), 15 June: The Northern Machine-Building Enterprise defence shipyard (Sevmash) in
Severodvinsk has fulfilled an order for the production of 25 shipping packages for storing and shipping spent nuclear
fuel from scrapped nuclear submarines.
"The shipping packages were produced under contract with the Federal Atomic Energy Agency, which deals with the
scrapping of nuclear submarines, and are now ready to be handed over to the navy," the works' press service
said today.
Sevmash won a tender for the production of ferroconcrete packages costing 3.5m dollars. It was funded by the US
Defence Department's [Defence] Threat Reduction Agency as part of a tripartite US-Russian-Norwegian programme of
military cooperation in the protection of the environment in the Arctic. A total of 220 packages are to be produced
before 2010 for the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel from all the nuclear submarines scrapped in Russia.
[ITAR-TASS news agency] |
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