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