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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Russian Ministry of Defense holding up dismantlement of Lepse floating radioactive waste ship

LepseThe Lepse vessel, the world’s most dangerous floating radioactive waste and spend nuclear storage ship continues to bob at dockside at the Nerpa Naval shipyard on Kola Bay, where its has remained for the last 10 months since being towed from Murmansk Harbor’s Atomflot port for dismantlement.

It was expected the Lepse would be taken immediately into dry-dock for the complex dismantlement procedure to begin.

But after it was towed from the Atomflot nuclear icebreaker port in September – relieving Murmansk of one of its most pressing radiological hazards – for dismantlement at Nerpa, it was discovered the dry-dock awaiting the ship filled with nuclear trash, much of it in a damaged state demanding special technology to remove it, was occupied.

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