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Publish date: June 22, 2005
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He added that it is needed to build more storage facilities. According to Malyshev, today Russia accumulated about 650 million cubic meters of liquid and solid radioactive waste. 99% of it is located at the Rosatom facilities. The major part of the waste is low-level radioactive waste, Interfax reported.
The biggest problem with liquid radioactive waste is its dumping into the open water reservoirs as it goes on at the Mayak plant in Chelyabinsk region, although by 2010 the Mayak plant should stop dumping liquid radioactive waste after completing a modernisation program, Malyshev said. The Mayak has limits for liquid radioactive waste discharges, and at the moment the authorities are checking whether the plant really followed the set limits, Interfax reported.
An accident aboard numerous Volgoneft oil tankers in the Kerch in mid December clearly show what can happen to aged ships when they are operated in bad weather—and when economic and military objectives are prioritized over the lives of crews and environmental safety.
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution and climate change.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
A visit last week by Vladimir Putin and a Kremlin entourage to Astana, Kazakhstan sought in part to put Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, on good footing with local officials.