Russian CW Destruction Facility Nears Completion

A chemical weapons disposal facility in the Udmurtia Republic of Russia is more than 90 percent finished, ITAR-Tass reported today (see GSN, Sept. 12).

Work has begun on a lewisite destruction line and on a furnace that will be used to burn waste at the Kambarka facility.

German companies are providing needed equipment and German specialists helped to design and construct some buildings in the industrial part of the plant, according to ITAR-Tass.

A Russian official said international inspectors, who have visited the site during construction, controlled the assembly of the site. They also monitored safety.

“Representatives from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, who visited Kambarka in September, spoke very highly of the measures taken there to guarantee ecological safety,” said Valery Malyshev, deputy chief of the conventional problems department.

The site stores more than 6,000 tons of lewisite, which is slated to be destroyed in the next 3 1/2 years, ITAR-Tass reported (ITAR-Tass, Oct. 27).

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