The Russian Nuclear Industry

Over the second half of the century, vast quantities of radioactive waste and numerous radioactively contaminated sites resulting from the production of nuclear weapons, nuclear accidents, bad practice of early days of nuclear industry, as well as routine and normal functioning of nuclear power plants have accumulated in the world. Especially it refers to the United States and Russia. Once released to the environment, radioactive material can become a significant transboundary problem, thus cause an international concern about its impact on the health and environment.



The end of the Cold War made it possible to remove the secrecy curtain that covered nuclear industry from scrutiny insight of public and ecological organizations. This opened the way of a systematic, comprehensive and interdisciplinary international effort to study the problems of nuclear inheritance of the past half of the century and thus facilitate management and decision making to achieve technically sound, publicly acceptable and cost effective policy oriented to remediation and/or stabilization of the burden put by this inheritance.

This is an explanation of the entire Russian Nuclear Industry
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