VLADIVOSTOK. May 21 (Interfax) - Japanese equipment will assist the disposal of dozens of reactors from decommissioned submarines of the Russian Navy by the end of 2020. The Far Eastern Radioactive Waste Management Center, a branch of RosRAO, is doing the job.
Fifty-four reactor units are pending disposal in Primorye, and another 19 will be brought from Kamchatka, the Primorye Legislative Assembly reports.
The works will be done under the federal target program, "Industrial Disposal of Armaments and Military Hardware in 2011-2015 and the Period until 2020." A long-term storage facility has opened in the Razboinik Bay in southern Primorye for spent reactor units of submarines.
The Japanese government handed over the equipment to Russia in Fokino, Primorye territory, on May 18.
The Sakura floating dock with the lifting capacity of 3,500 tonnes, two cranes and the Sumire tugboat were supplied to Primorye under a Russian-Japanese intergovernmental agreement. The equipment cost approximately 2 billion rubles.