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

Severka

This ship was used to transport spent nuclear fuel from the storage facility at Andreeva Bay to the embarkation point for rail transport in Rosta, Murmansk. It had a civilian crew. The vessel has been laid up since 1993, but the nuclear fuel is still on board. [312]

Technical Data:

Length: Displacement: 1.800 tons
Beam: Crew:
Speed:

Displacement:

Construction yard

Severka was built in 1957 in Hungary as a river freighter prior to being transferred to the Northern Fleet in the 1960s. In 1978, it was refitted at the Navy yard at Sevmorput to transport spent nuclear fuel. [313]

Storage capacity

The ship has two storage tanks with a total storage capacity of 88 type TK-11 storage containers. [314]

Illustration Illustration, 7 kb.
Storage methods on board Severka

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Endnotes

[312] Meeting with Gosatomnadzor, Murmansk 1995. Return
[313] Perovsky, V. A., Handbook presented to the Murmansk County Committee for Ecology and Natural Resources, 1992. Return
[314] Ibid. Return

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