Engineers began dismantling a nuclear submarine scrapped from Russia's Pacific fleet on Sunday as part of a Japanese-funded project, a senior Japanese foreign ministry official said. With the recycling of the Viktor-3 class submarine at the Zvezda ("star" in Russian) plant near Vladivostok, "the implementation of the Russian-Japanese project 'Star of Hope' has begun," Sindo Esitaka told reporters in this Pacific port city. While Japan has been funding a nuclear submarine recycling programme for 10 years, too little has been done so far, Esitaka added. Over the past decade, "Japan has devoted 20 billion yen ($169 million, 144 million euros)...