Andreyeva Bay

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Andreyeva Bay
губа Андреева, guba Andreyeva
Waters Barents Sea
Land mass Mainland Europe
Geographical location 69 ° 27 ′ 10 ″  N , 32 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 69 ° 27 ′ 10 ″  N , 32 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  E
Andreyeva Bay (Murmansk Oblast)
Andreyeva Bay

The Andrejewa Bay ( Russian губа Андреева , guba Andrejewa ) is a bay on the west side of the fjord Sapadnaja Liza on the north coast of the Russian Kola Peninsula in the Barents Sea .

There are three naval bases on the opposite side of the fjord. The bay is located about seven kilometers northwest of the closed city of Zaozjorsk .

Nuclear waste dump "Installation 928-III"

A landfill with radioactive waste from the operations of the Soviet and Russian navies has been operated on the western side of the bay since 1962 . It is referred to in the English-language literature as “Installation 928-III”.

Among other things, 32 tons of highly radioactive waste are stored under poor conditions. 21,000 burned-out fuel rods from reactors of Soviet nuclear submarines are stored in three concrete containers. The environmental protection organization Bellona explains: "The radioactivity released here corresponds to the nuclear reactors of 93 submarines or the nuclear disaster of Chernobyl ." There was an incident with leakage of radioactivity as early as 1982 when part of the building collapsed on unsafe ground.

The Norwegian town of Kirkenes is located almost 100 kilometers west of the landfill. The Norwegian nuclear authorities continuously measure radioactivity to protect the population.

Rescue of the fuel rods

With bilateral support from Norway, Great Britain, Italy, Germany and France and with the support of the EBRD , work is ongoing to repair the destroyed infrastructure of the landfill. A salvage ship constructed by Italy brings the containers to a base near Murmansk , where they will be lifted onto railcars from 2018 and transported by train to the Mayak processing plant in the southern Urals, 2000 kilometers away . The campaign should last five to six years and cost 300 to 400 million euros. However, because of the Ukraine crisis, the future of the Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership (NDEP) is at stake, an environmental program that includes the elimination of these nuclear contaminants and whose fund is managed by the EBRD.

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  1. ↑ Pavel Podvig, Oleg Bukharin, Frank von Hippel: Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces. Page 620 ( online )
  2. ↑ Joshua Handler: The Northern Fleet's Nuclear Submarine Bases. In: Jane's Intelligence Review , December 1993, pp. 554
  3. ↑ BBC, October 19, 2006, quoted from Society for Threatened Peoples (ed.): The Arctic is melting and is being plundered. Human Rights Report No. 44, December 2006, page 86 ff.
  4. ↑ The North Sea - a radioactive garbage dump. In: 3sat , May 2003 ( online )
  5. ↑ Benjamin Triebe: United only am radiant grave , In: NZZ, June 30, 2017.
  6. ↑ Russerne rydder i den dystre atomarven i Andrejevabukta. In: ABC Nyheter, June 27, 2017 (Norwegian / [1] )