Kola NPP

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.

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 Rosatom magazin "Safety of Environment" number 1/2008 features an article about the concept for a decommissioning plan made by Decommission network NGOs. In Rosatom Public Council 28th February authors of the concept presented the suggestions made by the non-governmental organizations regarding the concept of decommissioning of nuclear power units that have passed their operating lifetimes.

On May 14th, representatives of Gaia, Green World and Naturvernforbundet met with deputy governor of Murmansk oblast, Sergey Sobbotin, to present the concept of decommission plan that the NGOs have written together.