Atomic Statistics

The Russian atomic industry today is comprised of: 31 reactors at 10 acting power stations; locations for the collection, warehousing and processing of liquid and solid radioactive wastes formed in the process of power generation (Minatom Russia presently has 105 storage depots which contain more than 500 million cubic meters of liquid waste alone), and for storing Russia’s over 15,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel. According to Vladimir Kuznetsov, the enterprises of the Ministry of Atomic Energy presently have on hand 20 million tons of toxic waste with a combined radioactivity of 2.2 billion curies.

The largest enterprises in the Russian atomic industry are the Mayak Industrial Complex in Chelyabinsk region, the Krasnoyarsk Mining-Chemical Industrial Complex, and the Siberian Chemical Industrial Complex in Tomsk.

There are also 10 closed cities (officially called “closed administrative-territorial formations,” the Russian acronym being ZATO) under the control of the Russian atomic industry.