Volodarsky (Murmansk Shipping Company)
- Volodarsky (Murmansk Shipping Company)
The "Volodarsky" is the oldest ship in the Murmansk Shipping Company fleet. The 96-m ship was constructedin 1929 and is of riveted steel plate construction. Until 1986 the ship was used to transport solid
radioactive waste from Atomflot to the west side of Novaya Zemlya for dumping into the Barents Sea. As of 1995, the ship had 14.5 metric tons of low- and medium-level waste stored aboard. [cite web|url=http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/ota/Ota_1/DATA/1995/9504.PDF|title=Nuclear Wastes in the Arctic: An Analysis of Arctic and Other Regional Impacts From Soviet Nuclear Contamination|date=September 1995|accessdate=2007-10-29|publisher=U.S. Office of Technology Assessment]
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