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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (7856)	10/27/2001 11:38:13 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 281500

Hi Raymond Duray; Re: "Good grief, decommissioning takes about 15 seconds." It takes longer than 15 seconds just to get the crew off the ship. If you define "decommissioning" as abandoning the vessel, with all its weapons and its nuclear reactor, and leaving it somewhere to be picked over by scavengers (who hopefully will know enough about nuclear physics to avoid doing something dangerous with the reactor, like, for instance, leaving it to rot unattended) it would still take days to decommission a boomer. I know! Maybe we could bury the "decommissioned" nuclear subs in your backyard! Fortunately, our military has a more restrictive definition of "decommissioning": Russian Submarine Decommissioning Plans For 2000 Russian shipyards plan to decommission 10 nuclear submarines in 2000 with two Oscar-I Class SSGNs, to be scrapped in Severodvinsk. A delegation from the American Cooperative Threat Reduction program (CTR) toured Murmansk and Arkhangelsk in early February to inspect the ports and assure that the submarine decommissioning contracts go smoothly. The United States will fund scrapping of 10 strategic nuclear-powered submarines at the shipyards in northwest Russian and in the Russian Far East during 2000. The CTR was established in 1991 by DoD to help reduce the former Soviet Union's weapons of mass destruction. Since 1991, Congress has provided $2.3 billion to support CTR's efforts. Initially, the naval portion of CTR received funding to decommission 31 Russian ballistic missile submarines. This year, Nerpa shipyard, located on the Kola Peninsula, is contracted to decommission three Delta Class ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs); four SSBNs are being scrapped at shipyards in Severodvinsk in Arkhangelsk; while the remaining three will be decommissioned at Zvezda shipyard in the Russian Far East. Recently, Japan promised an aid package of US$120.0 million for the decommissioning/scrapping of the Pacific Fleet's strategic submarines. Zvezda shipyard expects to receive a contract for this program that will give it a major share of the contract. ... clw.org The above are the costs associated with decommissioning Russian subs. Since we have higher labor costs it's undoubtedly a fact that our costs are even higher. And we aren't going to get it done in 15 seconds. dspace.dial.pipex.com Also see: n-base.org.uk dspace.dial.pipex.com -- Carl