Russian CW Disposal Site to Begin Operation in 2006

The Russian chemical weapons disposal facility at Maradykovsky is expected to begin operations in the last half of 2006, ITAR-Tass reported today (see GSN, May 2).

“The first phase of this [facility] is 90 percent ready, and I have no doubt that it will be launched at a set time,” said Valery Kapashin, head of the federal directorate for chemical weapons storage and disposal.

Depots at Maradykovsky contain 41,000 air bombs and missile warheads filled with sarin, soman and VX nerve agents, ITAR-Tass reported. The stockpile is scheduled to be eliminated by 2010.

Maradykovsky would be the third disposal site to begin operations, following Gorny and Kambarka. Russia plans to build processing facilities at each of its seven chemical weapons storage depots (ITAR-Tass, May 17).

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