During a meeting of the Marine Board of the Russian Federation, the issue of eliminating the dangerous nuclear legacy left by the country's Navy was considered. This was announced by Alexey Likhachev, Director General of the State Corporation Rosatom.
Rosatom is working to eliminate threats associated with nuclear and radioactive materials left over from the Navy, in cooperation with the National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute."
And our points of risk were both the Murmansk region, the Barents Sea, and the Far East.
In Gremikha, the work is almost completed. In Guba Andreeva, more than half of the work has been completed. The Far East has been cleared of both spent nuclear fuel and objects located in the water area.
We have already passed this "hump" in dealing with nuclear waste, but there is still a lot of work to be done.
In early December, Rosatom announced that the last batch of spent nuclear fuel from nuclear submarines had been removed from the coastal technical base of the Navy of the Russian Federation in the closed administrative-territorial entity Ostrovnoy (Gremikha village) in the Murmansk region. This has significantly reduced environmental risks for the region.
As part of the state program "Development of the Atomic Energy Industry Complex," Rosatom is engaged in eliminating the dangerous nuclear legacy of the Navy.
In the Murmansk region, the process of removing spent nuclear fuel is proceeding according to schedule. From 2002 to 2023, the amount of accumulated SNF has more than halved.
All spent nuclear fuel accumulated in the Far East has already been removed. Radiation-hazardous waste has also been removed from the former coastal technical base of the Navy in Krasheninnikov Bay. Work has begun on its decommissioning.
Earlier, the V. G. Khlopin Radium Institute, part of the Scientific Division of the State Corporation Rosatom, successfully tested a new installation designed to seal waste in borosilicate glass using induction melting in a hot crucible. This invention will ensure reliable isolation and safe storage of liquid radioactive waste.
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