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Russia: Operators Plan to Open Disposal Plant This Month Russian officials have said they plan to be able to begin destroying chemical weapons at the newly built Gorny disposal plant by Dec. 15, Vremya Novostei reported Friday (see GSN, Aug. 22). Operators are waiting for approval from a Russian commission currently visiting the site before work can begin, according to Vremya Novostei. The plant should allow Russia to meet a 2007 deadline to destroy part of its chemical weapons stockpile, said Zinovy Pak, general director of the Russian Munitions Agency. The plant can destroy 300 tons of mustard gas and 100 tons of lewisite annually, according to Vremya Novostei. Representatives from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons who have visited the plant have approved of its technology and equipment, said Alexander Gorbovsky, an official at the Munitions Agency (Nikolai Poroskov, Vremya Novostei, Nov. 29, Defense and Security translation, Dec. 2).
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