Abstract

AbstractAt the world economic summit in Kananaskis, Canada, in June 2002, the G8 heads of state decided on a global partnership against the distribution of nuclear weapons and materials of mass destruction. Based on this framework, the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) established a project in October 2003 concerning the storage of decommissioned Russian nuclear submarines. The basis was a German–Russian agreement. On the German side, the project management of this 300 million euro project was assigned to Energiewerke Nord GmbH (EWN) and technical controlling to BAM Bundesanstalt fur Materialforschung und –prufung under respective BMWi contracts. On the Russian side, the Kurchatov Institute has the project management of the long term interim storage facility in Sayda Bay, while the Nerpa shipyard, which is about 25 km away from the storage facility, is dismantling the submarines and preparing the reactor compartments for long term interim storage.The aims of the project — design a...

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