Project 11510 - Belyanka class

Bellona Report nr. 2:96. Written by: Thomas Nilsen, Igor Kudrik and Alexandr Nikitin.

Project 11510 - Belyanka class

The two ships of the Belyanka class, Amur and Pinega, were built to receive, transport and store liquid and solid radioactive waste. The ships are equipped with a special filter to reduce the radioactive content of liquid waste. They were formerly used to dump radioactive waste at sea.

	Northern Fleet	Pacific Fleet	Total
In service	1	1	2
Inactive	0	0	0
Dismantled	0	0	0
Number			[288] 2

Technical Data:[289]

Length:	123.3 m	Displacement:	8 400 tons
Beam:	17.1 m	Crew:	90
Draught loaded:	6.3 m	Speed:	approximately 16 knots

Both ships of this class were built in Vyborg.

Storage capacity[290]

Each ship has a storage capacity of 800 m³ of liquid radioactive waste. The liquid is filtered through a special filtering installation on board the vessel. The design criteria is to reduce the radioactive content by a factor of one thousand. The filter can process 120 tons of liquid waste per day; however, the filter plant has never satisfied the design criteria with regard to reduction of radioactive content. The maximum permissible activity is set at 370 MBq/l-370 kBq/l (10^-2-10^-5 Ci/l). Each vessel also has two holds for the storage of solid radioactive waste.

One hold has a capacity of 600 tons of waste loaded in containers; while the other can accommodate 400 tons. The waste may be of varying activity and physical dimensions.

Compartments: 8

Purification plant for liquid radioactive waste.
Holds for solid radioactive waste.
Storage tanks for liquid waste.
Power plant.
VRSh-room.
PEZh.
Auxiliary power plant.
Accommodation and controls.

Individual ships[291]

Amur.: Commissioned to the Northern Fleet on November 29, 1984. Refitted in 1993/94 at the Nerpa shipyards.
Pinega.: Commissioned to the Pacific Fleet on July 17, 1987.

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The Northern Fleet took Amur into use in 1984 and the vessel was comprehensively overhauled in 1993/94. Here Amur is pictured lying in dry dock in the central harbour at Murmansk.

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Endnotes

[288] Pavlov, A. S., Military Vessels in the Soviet Union and Russia 1945 - 1995, 1994. Return
[289] Ibid. Return
[290] Promotional leaflet on the ship, presented by the TsKB Institute, Aisberg. Return
[291] Pavlov, A. S., Naval Craft of Russia and the Soviet Union 1945-1995, 1994. Return

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