- (AFP) -- Britain has agreed to pay Russia some 5.5 million
dollars (4.7 million euros) to keep its decommissioned nuclear-powered
submarines safely afloat, the chief of the Russian armed forces' ecological
security department said.
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- Russia and Britain would join forces for two projects
that aim to make sure that 103 decommissioned subs would not present a
threat to the local environment, General Alevtin Yunak was quoted by the
ITAR-TASS news agency as saying late Tuesday.
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- According to the Russian atomic energy ministry, quoted
by ITAR-TASS, 192 Soviet-era and Russian submarines have been decommissioned
since the 1980s, of which 89 have been dismantled.
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- Of the 103 nuclear submarines awaiting dismantling, 76
still contain a nuclear reactor.
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