
Russia’s Chernobyl-style reactors to keep operating until the end of the decade
Recent announcements by Russian nuclear officials that they will extend the runtimes of several Chernobyl-style RBMK nuclear reactors shed light on t...
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Publish date: September 19, 1997
Written by: Thomas Nilsen
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The employees in Snezhinsk have not been paid for more than three months, and as a result plant officials say social tension is near the point of explosion. They claim to have 111 billion rubels (approx. 19 million USD) oustanding with the federal government for this year, most of it for wages, according to Itar-Tass. The center’s managers and trade union leaders warned of an impending strike. There is 16,000 employees at the All-Russian Institute of Technical Physics (VNIITF).
Last fall, one of the VNIITF’s directors shot himself to death, reportedly after leaving a note citing governmental indifference to the nuclear complex’ financial woes.
On september 16th, employees and scientists of the other Russian Federal Nuclear Center, in Sarov (Arzamas-16), startet protest actions because of the state’s salary-debt to the center.
Recent announcements by Russian nuclear officials that they will extend the runtimes of several Chernobyl-style RBMK nuclear reactors shed light on t...
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