Abstract
<b>Object and purpose of research. </b>This study is devoted to the scrapping of nuclear ships for the risk assessment of their decommissioning activities <br><b> Subject matter and methods.</b>Based on available publications, this paper discusses various concepts for scrapping SSV-33 Ural, a large nuclear-powered ELINT ship, in the Primorsky Kray. The study was performed as per common research methods (analysis, comparison, instantiation). <br><b>Main results. </b>This paper investigated the first experience of scrapping a nuclear-powered surface ship in the Primorsky Kray and, taking this Project 1941 ship as a case study, gave an insight to technical and organizational aspects of its scrapping process. <br><b> Conclusion. </b>The study concludes that the floating unit with the reactor compartment of SSV-33 Ural needs further work to reduce its size and weight so that it could be sent to Ustrichny boneyard for long-term storage of reactor compartments. The paper also suggests an alternative variant of decommissioning nuclear-powered surface ships, by unloading their iron-water protection tanks with nuclear steam-generating plant and merge them into a single item for long-term storage, without any intermediate modules.
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