Volodarsky (ship) explained
| -- commercial vessels --> | +Volodarsky| Ship Displacement: | 5,500 tonnes | | Ship Length: | 96m (315feet) |
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Volodarsky is the oldest ship in the
Murmansk Shipping Company fleet. The 96m (315feet) ship was constructed in 1929 and is of riveted steel plate construction. Until 1986 the ship was used to transport solid
radioactive waste from
Atomflot to the west side of
Novaya Zemlya for dumping into the
Barents Sea. As of 1995, the ship had 14.5 metric tons of low- and medium-level waste stored aboard.
[1] In 2014, the recycling of the "Volodarsky" depot ship was completed.
References
Notes and References
- Web site: Nuclear Wastes in the Arctic: An Analysis of Arctic and Other Regional Impacts from Soviet Nuclear Contamination . September 1995 . . OTA-ENV-623.
