Rissian Ministry for Atomic Energy (Minatom) and Ministry of Defence officials, Navy high commanders, Shipbuilding Agency representatives, heads of the leading shipbuilding and machine-building plants, legislation and executive officials met in Severodvinsk last year, where Russian nuclear submarines have been, and are being, built, and where decommissioning activities are underway Foreign experts and representatives of official and business circles from the USA, Norway, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden, Japan, Netherlands, Denmark and India, as well as representatives from the IAEA, European Union, ISTC and AMEC programme (Russia-USA-Norway) also took part in the seminar. The seminar was held on the premises of the state shipyards Zvezdochka and Sevmash, and the state research institute Onega. The seminar provided a forum to: 1. Analyse experience of decommissioning nuclear submarines. 2. Discuss technical problems arising during their dismantling. 3. Outline solutions according to Russian and Western practice. 4. Discuss methods for intensifying foreign investment in de-activation and dismantling nuclear ships.
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