By 2015 Russia will put into operation 20-25% less power capacity than originally had been planned several years ago. This reduction will affect nuclear power plants to a large extent. In the coming 5 years the power of nuclear power plants will be introduced at a level that is 2,5 times less than projected by government plans.

The DecomAtom network will this week show the video documentary “Wasteland” in various cities in Northwest-Russia. The documentary is about the environmental consequences of the Mayak plant in the Ural Region in Russia.

DecomAtom’s Russian website was hacked today, apparently by some supporters of nuclear energy.

A Committee, established by the Norwegian Government, recommends that Norwegian nuclear waste is sent to the Mayak plant in Russia. This creates an image of the Urals and Siberia, as an international nuclear garbage dump.

28-30 September the DecomAtom project organized a conference in Chelyabinsk focusing on the Mayak spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in the concept of the decommissioning plan. During the conference a joint resolution for decommissioning was adopted.

29th of September 1957 a tank with radioactive waste at the Mayak plant in Russia exploded. On the day 52 years after the accident representatives of the Decomatom-project participated in a memorial in the village of Muslyumovo.

Oleg Bodrov and Gennady Shabarin from the DecomAtom network visited United States in August to learn from successful decommissioning projects.

In 2008, Rosatom Federal Atomic Energy Agency promulgated the bill On Radioactive Waste Management. This is one of the first attempts on the part of the agency of state administration to organize a broad discussion of an important law in the field of nuclear energy use. In this article we present some basic approaches to the new law.

More than 50 participants from nuclear industry, authorities, trade unions and environmentalists met in the nuclear city Sosnovy Bor to discuss closure and dismantling of old nuclear power plants.