Russia Chooses Site for CW Disposal Facility

The first phase of a new chemical weapons disposal facility is expected to be completed by the end of this year at the Maradykovo depot in Russia’s Kirov region, ITAR-Tass reported last week (see GSN, July 28).

The storage facility at Maradykovo houses 40,822 bombs and warheads containing toxic substances, according to Leonid Ogarkov, head of the conventional issues department at the regional administration.

Of the 6,936 tons of chemical weapons stored at Maradykovo, 4,000 are expected to be destroyed by the end of April 2007. The entire arsenal is scheduled to be destroyed by 2010, according to BBC (ITAR-Tass/BBC Worldwide Monitoring, July 29).

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