According to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Russia built over 450 naval nuclear reactors which have a total power comparable to the capacity of all Russia's civilian nuclear power plants.
Around 43 million euros will be spent on decommissioning the Lepse nuclear service ship, which is currently moored 2 km from Murmansk, and contains spent nuclear fuel storage. The decommissioning process is expected to take five years.
Many of the nuclear surface ships were used to fuel and de-fuel nuclear submarines and vessels at sea. They are considered to be highly radioactive and the majority of them have yet to be dismantled.
Around 20 million euros is to be spent on transporting nuclear fuel and creating a temporary nuclear storage facility in Andreyeva Bay, northwest Russia, to handle some of the 22,000 spent fuel assemblies from Russia's nuclear icebreaker fleet.
Funds have also been allocated for a nuclear monitoring system.
Since 1958, the Soviet Union, and later Russia, built 248 nuclear powered submarines, 5 nuclear powered military surface vessels, 8 nuclear icebreakers, and a nuclear powered transport ship.
As of January 1, 2004, 121 nuclear-powered vessels were withdrawn from active service including 117 nuclear powered submarines in northwest Russia.
According to the EBRD 100 submarines have been broken up with 10 still outstanding. Some of the funds are due to be spent on decommissioning these remaining submarines.
