Murmansk governor informs Putin about finalized construction of plant to scrap submarine nuclear reactors
MOSCOW. Jan 12 (Interfax) - The Saida Guba plant has been built in the Murmansk region to scrap submarine nuclear reactors, Murmansk Region Governor Marina Kovtun said.
"I'd like to speak about the Year of Ecology. Vladimir Vladimirovich, you have declared 2017 the Year of Ecology with an order, and I'd like to tell you about a project implemented on the Kola Peninsula. It was started a long time ago, it lasted for 12 years and now it is done. It seems to be a major environmental project, which will clean up the nuclear legacy of the Soviet period," Kovtun told President Vladimir Putin at a meeting in Moscow on Thursday.
State corporation Rosatom implemented the project together with a German company, which invested over 600 million euros. The main partners were the Kurchatov Institute and Energiewerke Nord.
"What happened as a result is the place called Saida Guba, which has fully attained an environmentally safe condition, infrastructures have been developed to scrap nuclear-powered submarines and to form reactor units, and an efficient system has been created to treat nuclear waste. This is a huge complex capable of storing 155 reactor units from nuclear-powered submarines," the governor said.
The project has no analogues in the world by technological and safety levels, Kovtun said. She invited Putin to visit the facility.