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Russia: FIssile Material: Plutonium Production: Mayak: Chelyabinsk-60 Research Facility

Russia:  Chelyabinsk-60 Research Facility

This file is no longer being updated.  For major recent developments, see the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Developments file.

For archived PO Mayak developments, see the main Ozersk (Chelyabinsk-65) entry.

This division was founded in 1958 as a result of the explosion of a waste storage tank in 1957. The facility studies the effects of extensive radioactive contamination.
[Thomas Cochran, Robert S. Norris, Oleg Bukharin, Making the Russian Bomb: From Stalin to Yeltsin (Boulder: Westview Press, 1995), p. 93.]
 
Last updated 30 April 1999

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