1.The Soviet/Russian nuclear submarines (NS) service lives average 25 years. Upon a NS is put out of the Navy's operations, it has to undergo required procedures to isolate radioactive wastes that are dangerous to people and the environment, and also to process non-radioactive metals and materials that could be subsequently used in the national economy. The lack of required facilities for up-to-day utilization of the out-of service NS results in long keeping them afloat, with the demands for continuous control and the whole range of complex labor-consuming actions.

2.In the USSR and then in Russia, the problem of utilizing NS had not been tackled for many years, that having brought most pitiable impact upon the environment around of places where the out-of-service NS were stationed. Radioactive pollution of some facilities in Kola Peninsula and Primorie Krai turned to become the international problem, and extremely costly one, demanding huge investments. The situation was aggravated with emergency situation many coastal nuclear submarine fleet facilities have found themselves in.

3.To use the Russia's existing complex of industrial utilization of the ships with nuclear energy units (NEU) for solving the problem of the expensive and potentially dangerous keeping the British out-of service NS afloat would become another case of the further development of the international cooperation in the field of WMD non-proliferation and the environment protection. The Russian shipyards' experience in complex utilizing ships with NEU and their industrial capabilities and infrastructure might promote the success in solving the problems of utilizations of sea oil-rig platforms, that is in the interests of both Russia and Great Britain.