Sajda Bay
| Sajda Bay Saida Bay |
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| Waters | Kola Bay | |
| Land mass | Mainland Europe | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 14 ′ 55 " N , 33 ° 14 ′ 0" E | |
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The Sayda Bay (also Saida Bay ) is a western branch of the Kola Bay about 60 kilometers north of Murmansk .
At the exit of the bay is the city of Gadschijewo with the naval base Gadschijewo . The bay serves as a ship cemetery and contains the largest storage facility for disused reactors from nuclear submarines . As part of a closed city of the Alexandrovsk region, the bay is only accessible with a special permit.
nuclear waste
A long-term interim storage facility for radioactive waste from the Northern Fleet is located here . Germany financed part of the construction costs under the G8 program with around 588 million euros. Federal Minister of Economics Michael Glos opened the facility on July 18, 2006 . 93 disused reactors are now stored there (as of 2016).
See also
In Andreyeva Bay, about 40 km to the west, there is a nuclear waste dump with burned-out fuel rods.
Web links
- Final report on the German-Russian project of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy
Individual evidence
- ↑ Achim Nuhr: The atomic legacy of the Northern Fleet . ARD-Radio-Feature from June 26, 2011, ( manuscript ( Memento from November 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), MP3 ( Memento from June 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ))
- ↑ Financial Times ( online ( memento of April 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ))
- ↑ The Star ( online )
- ↑ The Standard ( online )
- ↑ BMWI ( online, pdf ( memento of the original dated July 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. )
- ^ Final report on the German-Russian project. Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, p. 27 , accessed on June 20, 2017 .
