ROSATOM EXPERIENCE IN ARRANGEMENT OF WORKS ON REHABILITATION OF RADIATION-HAZARDOUS FACILITIES

摘要

In 2000 according to the Russian Federation Government's Decree a number of radiation-hazardous facilities located in the Northern Region and the Far East were placed from the Defense Ministry under the authority of Minatom of Russia/the Ministry of Atomic Energy/. Two enterprises with location in the mentioned regions were established to manage the above facilities. The temporary storage site of the Northern Region located in the Andreeva Bay constituted an especial ecological hazard for the environment. The Cold War had left its heavy heritage of tens thousand tons of radioactive waste. Problems accumulated for this period were so huge that the solution thereof only by Minatom of Russia would have required several decades. Having impartially assessed the real situation, exactly in the first year Minatom of Russia defined 4 main directions for the work, as follows: development of a necessary infrastructure for the ensuring of safe labor conditions for SevRAO staff; creation of conditions for spent nuclear fuel management; creation of conditions for radioactive waste management; preparation for rehabilitation of a distressed building of the former spent nuclear fuel storage.