RUSSIA: CHELYABINSK-60 RESEARCH FACILITY

This division was founded in 1958 as a result of the explosion of a waste storage tank in 1957. The facility studies the effects of extensive radioactive contamination.
[Thomas Cochran, Robert S. Norris, Oleg Bukharin, Making the Russian Bonb: From Stalin to Yeltsin (Boulder: Westview Press, 1995), p. 93.]
 

Mayak Production Association (PO Mayak) Summary
PO Mayak Developments
Mayak Chemical Combine
Reactors
Reprocessing Facilities
 Spent Fuel Developments
MOX Fuel Production Facilities
Fissile Material Facilities
Radioactive Waste
 Chelyabinsk-60 Research Facility