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DmECTORATE OF INTELLIGENCE
3O~ay 1990
USSR: Problems With Radioactive Waste
at Defense Sites
Summary
Environmental problems caused by radioactive waste exist at the
So.·iet plutoniwn production complexes at Chelyabinsk-40 and Tomsk.
Complete disregard for the potential hazards of radioactive waste in the
late 194 Os and continuing until the 1960s created contamination problems
in extent and severity that are rivaled only by the Cherrwby/' disaster. At
the plutoniwn production site at Krasnoyarsk, there is controversy over a
plan to inject radioactive waste from a power reactor fuel reprocessing
plant into the ground.
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This memorandum was prepared b/.
, Office of
Scil"ntific and Weaoo~esearch. CnrT1fnMt~ 'l.nd questions may be directed to
OSWl{
SW M 90-20028