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Rosatom to utilize 191 nuc subs out of 198 outcommissioned by 2010
09/30/2009Rosatom corporation will utilize 191 nuclear submarines out of 198 outcommissioned from the Navy by the end of 2010. That was said today by Evgeny Evstratov, Deputy Director General of Rosatom State Corporation at IX International Nuclear Forum in St. Petersburg.
He remarked that presently about 25 nuclear submarines have not been utilized. All works are performed in the framework of nuclear-power submarines and nuclear-power surface ships utilization program and technical coastal bases recovery program. The named programs are to be continued in 2010 and the concept has already been developed, added E.Evstratov. In particular, the document provides utilization of nuclear engineering service vessels, surface ships with nuclear-power plants, redesign of three-section blocks into one-section ones and sending them for storage, and also recovery of technical bases.
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