The pace of cleanup at a major Cold War dump for spent nuclear submarine fuel in Northwest Russia is going faster than planned, officials with Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom have said, with efforts racing ahead twice as rapidly as initially thought possible. Still, Rosatom has elected not to revise its deadline for removing decades of piled up nuclear fuel assemblies at Andreyeva Bay, a Soviet era submarine maintenance base, whose proximity to Europe made it a lighting rod for international environmental concern. On Thursday, Anatoly Grigoryev, who heads up Rostom’s international technical programs, told the Interfax newswire that technicians had shipped away a load of fuel that was expected to take a year to remove in only six months.
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