Nuclear Submarine Decommissioning and Related Problems

Current Status of Nuclear Submarine Decommissioning.- Problems of Nuclear Submarine Decommissioning and Recycling.- Worldwide Overview of Nuclear Submarine Decommissioning Plans and Issues.- Overview of Nuclear Submarine Inactivation and Scrapping/Recycling in the United States.- French Strategy for Disposal of Nuclear Powered Ships and Spent Fuel.- Conceptual Approaches to Decommissioning, Dismantlement, and Utilization of Nuclear Submarines.- Basics of the Concept of Reactor Compartment Handling (Including Off-Normal) when Recycling Nuclear Submarines. Top-Priority R&D.- Basic Approaches to the Problem of Recycling of Russian Nuclear Submarines.- Major Directions of Recycling Power Compartments from Nuclear Submarines.- Conceptual Approach to Recycling of Nuclear Submarines and Solid Radioactive Waste Produced.- Decommissioning and Recycling of Nuclear Submarines and Other Nuclear Powered Ships and Vessels.- Radioecological Problems Related to Disassembly and Recycling of Decommissioned Nuclear Submarines.- An Alternative Concept for Recycling Nuclear Submarines of the Russian Federation Navy.- Situation with Decommissioning, Dismantlement and Recycling of Nuclear Submarines in Russia.- Nonbudget Financing of the Nuclear Submarine Recycling Problem.- Radioactive Material and Waste Treatment Problems.- Radioactive Waste Reprocessing in Nuclear Submarine Recycling.- Liquid Waste Processing.- Principles of Handling Decommissioned Ship Reactors.- Issues of Policy Integration in Solving the Problems of Nuclear Submarines Decommissioning.- Decommissioning of Nuclear Submarines: Waste Minimization by Recycling.- Systems Approach for Safe Handling and Quality Assurance in Waste Management: Conditioning, Transport, Storage, Disposal, and Safeguards.- Problems of Decontamination and Reprocessing of Materials, Equipment and Radioactive Waste from Nuclear Submarines Being Recycled.- Disposal of High-Level Waste Through Underground Nuclear Explosions in the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago.- Experience with and Technologies for Nuclear Submarine Decommissioning, Dismantlement and Utilization.- Experience of Nuclear Submarine Recycling at "Nerpa" Ship Repairing Plant.- On Problems of Recycling Nuclear Submarines at "Zvezda" Plant.- Problems of Nuclear Submarine Recycling and Environmental Protection.- Safety Issues when Handling Spent Nuclear Fuel and Radioactive Waste in the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Federation.- Decommissioning Plan for Paldiski Nuclear Facilities.- Review of Key Decontamination and Dismantlement Technologies.- Overview of Defueling Approaches used to Deal with Reactors that have Major Core Damage.- A Consortium Approach to Nuclear Plant Material Recycle and the Stabilization of Nuclear Naval Vessels and Waste Materials.- Cementation of Equipment and Power Compartment Rooms as an Ecologically Safe Approach to Decommissioning, Recycling and Burial of Nuclear Submarines.- Recycling of Objects by Explosive Processes.- Radiation Safety: Experience and Problems.- Comparative Ecological and Hygienic Analysis of Existing and Perspective Technologies for Nuclear Submarine Disintegration.- Top-Priority Issues of Radiation Safety in Decommissioning, Dismantling, and Recycling Nuclear Submarines.- Ensuring of Radiation Safety when Decommissiong, Dismantling and Recycling Nuclear Submarines.- Radiation Factors Determining the Safety of Handling Reactor Compartments when Decommissioning Nuclear Submarines.- Sealed-State Criteria in Technologies for Extended Storage of Recycled Reactor Compartments.- Normalization of the RadiationSituation in Reactor Compartments of Nuclear Submarines Prior to Dismantlement.- Radioecology Issues.- Overview of Contamination from U.S. and Russian Nuclear Complexes.- Radioecological Situation at Bases and Sites for Refueling and Recycling of Nuclear Submarines in the Russian Federation Pacific Fleet. Organizational Issues of Radioecological Support.- The NATO/CCMS/NACC Pilot Study on Cross-Border Radioactive Contamination Emanating from Defense-Related Installations in the Barents and the Kara Sea.- Norwegian Concerns Regarding Nuclear Submarine Decommission Activities.- U.S. Department of Defense/Office of Naval Research Arctic Nuclear Waste Assessment Program.