The Andreeva Bay is a bay on the Murmansk coast of the Barents Sea [1] . It penetrates into the north-western part of the shore of the West Face Bay [1] . Opened to the south, it goes into the mainland for 1.1 km [1] . The width at the entrance is 0.75 km [1] . Maximum depth over 50 m [1] .
| Guba Andreeva | |
|---|---|
| Specifications | |
| Bay type | Lip |
| Location | |
| Upstream water area | Barents Sea |
| A country |
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| The subject of the Russian Federation | Murmansk region |
| Area | urban district ZATO city Zaozersk |
Content
General Information
Named in honor of N. P. Andreev (1850-1906) - doctor of the schooner " Bakan " [2] .
Several streams flow into the lip [1] . The banks of the lip are mostly low, with elevations of stony hills up to 100 m high [1] . The depth of the bay gradually decreases to the top of the lip [1] .
There are no settlements on the banks of the lip. Administratively, the bay is part of the urban district of the city of Zaozersk, Murmansk region of Russia .
Waste problem
The 569th coastal technical base of the Northern Fleet of Russia , which was commissioned in 1961, was located on the western shore of the bay [2] . During the Cold War years, a large amount of spent fuel collected from the reactors of nuclear SSBNs of the Northern Fleet of the USSR [3] accumulated at the base.
In February 1982, a radiation accident occurred at the repository of spent nuclear fuel , as a result of which about 700 thousand tons of highly radioactive water flowed into the waters of Andreeva Bay and the Barents Sea.
According to observers, the storage of nuclear waste, which is contained in conditions of insufficient funding, represents a serious danger of a catastrophe, comparable in scale to the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant [3] .
On June 27, 2017, an industrial complex was commissioned to extract spent nuclear fuel from the base’s storage facilities. Nuclear waste will be sent for reprocessing and disposal in the Chelyabinsk region at the Mayak plant. Funds to finance the project in the amount of about $ 100 million were allocated by an international consortium under the auspices of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development . The estimated period of complete cleaning of storage facilities is 5 years [3] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Map sheet R-36-89.90 Zaozerny . Scale: 1: 100,000. 1981 Edition.
- ↑ 1 2 Andreeva Bay // Kola encyclopedia . In 5 tons. T. 1. A - D / Ch. ed. A. A. Kiselev . - SPb. : IP; Apatity: KSC RAS, 2008. - p. 234.
- ↑ 1 2 3 “How the West helps Russia to cope with the“ sea Chernobyl ”” , BBC , 28.06.2017.
Literature
- Safonov A., Nikitin A. Nuclear Bay Andreeva . - 2009. - 84 p. (inaccessible link)
- Andreeva // Geographical dictionary of the Murmansk region / ed.-comp. V. G. Muzhikov. - Murmansk: Murman. region In-t development region. education, training ped. personnel, 1996. - p. 14. - ISBN 5-86975-023-7 .