Soviet Nuclear Submarine Training Center
| Technical Data | |
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Paldiski Soviet Nuclear Submarine Training Center |
| General information | |
| Owner: | Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications[1] |
| Operator | A.L.A.R.A Ltd.[2] |
| Location: | Paldiski, Pakri peninsula,50 km west of Tallinn |
| Type of Reactor: | PWR/BM-A (Unit 1) |
| PWR/BM-4 (Unit 2)[3] | |
| Power Info: | 70 MW (Unit 1) |
| 90 MW (Unit 2)[4] | |
| Fuel Enrichment: | 20 %[5] |
| Refuelling and maintenance: | 1980 - 1981 (Unit 1) |
| Never (Unit 2)[6] | |
| Territory: | 24 ha[7] |
| Safety issues | |
| Decommissioning waste: | ~ 720-2070 m3 (arising from the reactor compartments)[8] |
| Population of the area: | 4,372 (in January 2010) [9] |
| Construction data | |
| Construction started/finished: | early 1960s |
| First Criticality: | April 1968(Unit 1) |
| February 1983 (Unit 2)[10] | |
| Last Criticality: | January 1989(Unit 1) |
| December 1989(Unit 2)[11] | |
| Status: | Deferred decommissioning[12] |
Summary
Paldiski became a Soviet territory already in 1939. It was the first Estonian area to be occupied by Soviet troops.[13]
In the 1960s, a military training centre of nuclear submarine crews was established in Paldiski. The facility included two scaled submarine mock-ups, one Delta and one Echo class, built on dry-land, each containing an operational nuclear reactor (Sinisoo 1995). Beside the reactor compartments, the main Technological Building contained a spent fuel storage pool and some associated rooms, all were radiologically contaminated.[14]
The area under the training centre was approximately 22 hectares. Both training submarines were housed within a single building in a common high bay area. The auxiliary site facilities included a liquid waste processing facility, storage buildings for solid and liquid radioactive waste, a central facility ventilation centre, cooling towers, a cooling water pump facility, a central heating plant, a radioactive laundry facility and a radiochemical laboratory.[15]
It was the largest such facility in the whole Soviet Union.[16]
Links
- A.L.A.R.A Ltd. (Operator): http://www.alara.ee/
- The Ministry of the Environment:http://www.envir.ee/
- Paldiski Municipality: http://www.paldiski.ee/
References
- ↑ Enn Realo, PhD, "PRACTICES AND ACTIVITIES RELEVANT TO NUCLEAR AND RADIATION SAFETY IN ESTONIA." Visit of IAEA experts, Tartu-Tallinn, 8-12 Oct 2012
- ↑ Enn Realo, PhD, "PRACTICES AND ACTIVITIES RELEVANT TO NUCLEAR AND RADIATION SAFETY IN ESTONIA." Visit of IAEA experts, Tartu-Tallinn, 8-12 Oct 2012
- ↑ http://www.keskkonnaamet.ee/public/kiirgus/3rd_JCReport_Estonia.pdf as of April 26, 2013
- ↑ http://www.keskkonnaamet.ee/public/kiirgus/3rd_JCReport_Estonia.pdf as of April 26, 2013
- ↑ http://www.keskkonnaamet.ee/public/kiirgus/3rd_JCReport_Estonia.pdf as of April 26, 2013
- ↑ http://www.keskkonnaamet.ee/public/kiirgus/3rd_JCReport_Estonia.pdf as of April 26, 2013
- ↑ Enn Realo, PhD, "PRACTICES AND ACTIVITIES RELEVANT TO NUCLEAR AND RADIATION SAFETY IN ESTONIA." Visit of IAEA experts, Tartu-Tallinn, 8-12 Oct 2012
- ↑ Enn Realo, PhD, "PRACTICES AND ACTIVITIES RELEVANT TO NUCLEAR AND RADIATION SAFETY IN ESTONIA." Visit of IAEA experts, Tartu-Tallinn, 8-12 Oct 2012
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paldiski as of April 26, 2013
- ↑ http://www.keskkonnaamet.ee/public/kiirgus/3rd_JCReport_Estonia.pdf as of April 26, 2013
- ↑ http://www.keskkonnaamet.ee/public/kiirgus/3rd_JCReport_Estonia.pdf as of April 26, 2013
- ↑ Enn Realo, PhD, "PRACTICES AND ACTIVITIES RELEVANT TO NUCLEAR AND RADIATION SAFETY IN ESTONIA." Visit of IAEA experts, Tartu-Tallinn, 8-12 Oct 2012
- ↑ http://www.aviastar.org/travel/gallery.php?dir=eesti/paldiski as of April 26, 2013
- ↑ http://www.geo.lt/geo/uploads/media/71-78.pdf as of April 26, 2013
- ↑ http://www.geo.lt/geo/uploads/media/71-78.pdf as of April 26, 2013
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paldiski as of April 26, 2013
