Open AccessEngineering and Ecological Assessment of Nuclear Powered Ships Dismantling
Author(s) -
Хвостова,
М. С. Хвостова
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
bezopasnostʹ v tehnosfere
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1998-071X
DOI - 10.12737/11874
Subject(s) - spent nuclear fuel , missile , nuclear reactor , engineering , population , aeronautics , nuclear weapon , environmental science , marine engineering , nuclear engineering , physics , aerospace engineering , nuclear physics , demography , sociology
The article considers basic approaches to dismantling of nuclear-powered guided missile heavy cruisers on the example
of the nuclear-powered guided missile heavy cruiser "Admiral Ushakov", as well as conceptual questions of safety during
planned dismantling. The major factors that have impact on choosing the strategy of dismantling and on ensuring nuclear,
radiation and ecological safety of the personnel, population and environment during dismantling are considered. The
conclusion is that maintaining and servicing decommissioned nuclear powered ships and their reactor installations, along
with operations in the course of subsequent dismantling of nuclear powered ships have no fundamental differences from
the corresponding conditions and operations for nuclear submarines. “Shiprepairing Center “Zvezdochka” JSC has longterm
experience of maintaining and dismantling nuclear submarines, including fuel discharge of dozens of marine reactor
plants. This experience convincingly confirms high reliability of procedures (including on nuclear and radiation safety and
on inadmissible impacts on environment) embedded into domestic projects of marine reactor plants, and acceptability of
regulations and technologies applied by “Shiprepairing Center “Zvezdochka” JSC during corresponding operations including
such potentially dangerous ones as discharging nuclear reactors and further treatment of the spent nuclear fuel.