Russia running out of retired subs

By 2010, Russia will have completed the decommissioning of all its retired nuclear submarines, a representative of Rosatom says.

Only two submarines, both in a emergency state, will remain not decommissioned by 2010, Yevgenii Kudryavtsev confirmed in a conference on the issue today.

Since 2002, a total of 99 subs have been decommissioned and dismantled, 70 of the on Russian funding and the remaining 29 with support from foreign donors.

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