April, 26, 1986, Chernobyl disater took place. The epicenter was Homiel and the same deadly effect was recorded some 200 Kms away at Magilyow, regions in Republic of Belarus. How the intensity lasted that distance is still mysterious! Some say wind conditions and some believe in fate and destiny. But what we know for sure as a matter of fact and that is the after effects of the fall out.

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.

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.

The major of the city Sosnovy Bor, where Leningrad nuclear power plant is situated, is member of the organizing committee for the international hearing on decommissioning in the end of October. This week, the major met with NGOs from the DecomAtom network, which gathered in Sosnovy Bor to prepare the hearing.

On 4th of July at the information center of Kola nuclear plant, a round table with participants from the environmental organization GAIA, leaders of the Kola nuclear plant trade union and administrative officer of Murmansk public union for nuclear energy safety, took place. The main topic of the round table was the ‘Concept of decommissioning of old nuclear reactors’ which was prepared and presented by the public environmental organizations within the international DecomAtom project.

The hull of what is supposed to be the world’s first floating nuclear power plant will be moved from a shipyard in the Arkhangelsk region on the White Sea in North-West Russia to another shipyard near St.Petersburg on the Baltic Sea.

An important step has been taken towards a decommission plan for Russian nuclear reactors. Rosatom, the regulatory body of the Russian nuclear complex, has drafted a concept for decommissioning. This is a great victory for the DecomAtom cooperation project.