Projects

European Union PHARE project 632.03.01 “Safe long-term storage of the Paldiski sarcophagi and related dismantling activities” Background and project objective In the 1960s, the construction of a training facility equipped with nuclear reactors for the training of nuclear submarine crews was started at the Soviet Army Submariners Training Centre in Paldiski. Later, another, more modern reactor-equipped stand was added to the existing one. Both training facilities were located on the territory within the administrative boundaries of the current city of Paldiski [...]

Preliminary studies for the decommissioning of the reactor sections and the construction of a radioactive waste disposal site at the Paldiski nuclear site 2014 - 2015 Two military training reactors, similar to those used on nuclear submarines, were installed at the naval training centre on the northern shore of the Pakri Peninsula to train submariners of the Soviet Union's Northern Fleet and Pacific Fleet. The purpose of the training reactors was to (re)train the marines in conditions as close as possible to real conditions before they were sent to submarines. Nuclear Reactor No. 1 was operational from 1968 [...]

Management of radioactively contaminated metallic waste for disposal and studies for the preparation of a plan for the decommissioning of the two reactor sections of the former Paldiski nuclear site and the construction of a radioactive waste disposal site and for the implementation of the impact assessment studies 2019 - 2023 The project consists of five activities. The preparation of the planning and impact assessment has started, and the public has been proactively and [...]