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States, Britain, Canada, Japan, Italy and Norway.

Russian Rosatom state nuclear corporation, the U.S. and Canada will finance the dismantling of the Borisoglebsk submarine at the Zvezdochka shipyard.

Zvezdochka is Russia"s biggest shipyard for repairing and dismantling of nuclear-powered submarines. The shipyard has the capacity to dismantle up to four nuclear submarines per year.

During the dismantlement, spent nuclear fuel is removed from the submarine"s reactors and sent into storage, the hull is cut into three sections, and the bow and stern sections are removed and destroyed. The reactor section is sealed and transferred into storage.

Russia has scrapped more than 200 out of 250 nuclear submarines built in the Soviet Union and pledged to dismantle the remaining outdated vessels by 2012.



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