Описание
Vilyuchinsk (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy-50), western shore of Krasheninnikova Bay across from Rybachiy, near Petropavlovsk Source: [Richard H. Rowland, "Secret Cities of Russia and Kazakhstan in 1998," Post-Soviet Geography and Economics, Vol. 40, No. 4, 1999, pp. 281-304.]
SUBORDINATION: Ministry of Defense (Source: US Department of Energy MPC&A Task Force Personnel Presentation, Monterey, CA, 6 August 1999.]{Entered 10/11/99 TR}
FUEL:
The PM-74 service ship, which operates out of the Chazhma Ship Repair Facility, delivers fresh fuel to the Kamchatka Shipyard for refueling nuclear submarines based out of Rybachiy.[1] Although the fuel generally moves directly from the PM-74 to the submarine reactor during refueling, fresh fuel has been stored temporarily on land here in the past.[2,3] According to one report, this facility contained enough fresh fuel for six to seven submarines in 1995.[3] After refueling, the PM-74 service ship returns to Chazhma with a load of spent fuel.
Sources:
[1] Rear Admiral Nikolay Yurasov et al., "Upgrades to the Russian Navy's Fuel Transfer Ships and Consolidated Storage Locations," Partnership for Nuclear Security: United States/Former Soviet Union Program of Cooperation on Nuclear Material Protection, Control, and Accounting, September 1998.
[2] NISNP Interview with Russian Nuclear Scientist, 21 September 1999, RUS990921.
[3] Joshua Handler, "Russia's Pacific Fleet - Problems with Nuclear Waste," Jane’s Intelligence Review, March 1995, Vol. 7, No. 3, p. 136-139.{Entered 11/30/99 TR}
ACTIVITIES:
Also known as Site 49K[1] and the Gornyak (Miner) Shipyard, the Kamchatka Shipyard (Kamchatskiy Morskoy Zavod) at Krasheninnikova Bay, between the towns of Vilyuchinsk (also called Sovetskiy and Staraya Tarya) and Primorskiy (also referred to as Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy-53), refuels and repairs nuclear-powered submarines.[2,3,4] The entire facility covers approximately 50 square kilometers and houses two piers and a radioactive waste burial site, also known as the ground-3/Kamchatka waste site, in addition to the interim fresh fuel storage facility. The waste site consists of three burial trenches and contains both high- and low-level radioactive waste.[7] As it is involved in refueling, the site may also have an interim storage area for spent fuel.
In the spring of 1990, cracks were discovered in the wall of one of the burial sites, which had allowed radiation to leak.[7] The buildings and trenches are located approximately 200 meters from the sea.[2] A survey commissioned by the Kamchatka regional administration in 1991 detected shore contamination. In late June 1994, melting snows washed radioactive contamination from a burial site into Seldevaya Bay (located just southeast of the town of Primorskiy) leading to an increase in radiation levels to 8 milliroentgen/h.[7]
Seldevaya Bay is home to several tankers that house liquid radioactive waste (LRW). As of 1 January 2000, the TNT-23 service ship, also docked in Vilyuchinsk, housed 678.66m3 of LRW emitting 37.51 curies of radiation, while Kamchatka Shipyard's PKDS-60 had 73.5m3 of LRW (well over its nominal capacity of 50m3) and emitted .46 curies of radiation (the total amount of radiation emitted by all ship-board LRW in the Russian Far East is 5853.85 curies), according to a Russian report.[8] Spent fuel on the PM-32, a service ship that in March 2002 was called the most dangerous radioactive object in the fleet, leaking radiation from the 126 damaged fuel rods on board, was finally unloaded in 2002. [For more information, see the 9/18/2002 entry, below.][10,11] The vessel was the subject of local concern for many years. In 2000, a Kamchatka Oblast official said that the regional Committee on Ecology and Natural Resource Management had appealed to the Russian president and the head of the armed forces for assistance, but the only result was the strengthening of the guard forces around PM-32.[9] The status of LRW on PM-32 is unclear. As of 1 January 2000, PM-32 had 47m3 of LRW emitting 5,556.58 curies of radiation.[8]
Solid radioactive waste (SRW) is stored on the following vessels in Seldevaya Bay: BTB (833.5m3 emitting 1599.9 curies), TNT-23 (1.2m3 emitting .7 curies), and PM-32 (5m3 emitting .9 curies). There is also 20.6m3 of SRW on the PKDS, at the town of Primorskiy, emitting 1.81 curies of radiation.[8]
As of 1 January 2000, five defueled nuclear submarines in Seldevaya Bay awaited dismantlement.[8]
In November 1998, the Russian Navy provided to the US Department of Energy (DOE) a proposal for US-Russian cooperation on SSN dismantlement. In January 1999, US Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson signed an agreement with the Russian Navy which provided the legal framework for proceeding with investigating this possibility. The work, should it come to fruition, will take place at the Kamchatka Shipyard. A US Department of Energy delegation visited the shipyard in March 1999, and a joint working group met in May 1999 to begin studying the feasibility of this work. The initial proposal sought assistance for dismantlement of 1 SSBN and 22 SSNs at Site 49K. As with other US DOE and Russian Navy cooperation, Kurchatov Institute will serve as the contractor. The US DOE hopes to finish the feasibility study and reach a decision on whether to proceed with the work or not by April 2000.[5] (Please see the Naval Foreign Assistance section for more details on US assistance to the Russian Navy for nuclear material storage and submarine dismantlement.) Some experts, however, note several problems associated with converting the Kamchatka Shipyard into an SSN dismantlement facility. These problems include the exodus of qualified workers from the remote Kamchatka Peninsula, the seismological instability there, and the military status of the shipyard, which could lead to difficulties in access for foreign specialists. Converting the Chazhma Ship Repair Facility, located in Primorskiy Kray, might provide a better location for SSN dismantlement, despite the fact that it would need upgrades.[6]
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