The seas around Russia -- from the Baltic to the Pacific -- are reputedly littered with decaying hulks of nuclear submarines and rusting metal containers with tens of millions of tons of nuclear waste. In 1999 a Norwegian funded project was completed in Northern Russia to stop a brook from streaming through an old storage building for spent nuclear fuel located in Andreeva Bay, Kola Peninsula. The brook was carrying radioactivity out into the Litsa Fjord. In Andreeva Bay there is the largest and the only operational storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in the Northern Fleet.
In Severodvinsk, Northern Russia, Norwegian companies managed a project to upgrade the so-called 'object 159' at Zvezdochka shipyard in Severodvinsk. The object consists of two type A-02 tanks for low-active liquid waste, each with a capacity of 500 cubic meters. The tanks are located near the planned liquid waste processing facility and will serve as a buffer. The upgrade began in May 1998 and was completed as planned in August 1999. Norway provided the $4,3 million required for the project.