Russia:  Mayak Chemical Combine (MCC)


STRUCTURE: The Mayak Chemical Combine houses the following facilities:
Reactors
- Graphite moderated production reactors (A, IR, AV-1, AV-2, AV-3)
- Light water moderated production reactors (Ruslan, Lyudmila)
- South Urals NPP 
 
Reprocessing Facilities
- RT-1 Spent Fuel Reprocessing Facility
- Radioisotope Plant
- Plant B
- Plant BB
 
MOX Fuel Production Facilities
- Complex 300
- Granat Production Plant
- Paket Production Plant
- Pilot Bay
- Zhemchug Plant
 
 
Fissile Material Facilities
- Fissile material storage facility
- Plant 20 (plutonium processing, finishing, and component manufacturing)
 
Nuclear Waste Facilities
- Nuclear waste storage (reservoirs, storage tanks, and burial sites)
- Vitrification plant
- Interim pool storage (incomplete)
- Facility for "cleaning" low-level waste
 
Mayak Chemical Combine also has an instrumentation plant, an experimental research center, a central laboratory, and a repair and machine shop.
[Thomas B. Cochran, Robert S. Norris, and Oleg A. Bukharin, Making the Russian Bomb: From Stalin to Yeltsin (Boulder: Westview Press, 1995),  p. 75.]

 

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