STRUCTURE: The Mayak Chemical Combine houses the following facilities:

Reactors
- Graphite moderated production reactors (A, IR, AV-1, AV-2, AV-3)
- Light water moderated production reactors (Ruslan, Lyudmila)
- South Urals NPP (see New Power Facilities Under Construction)
 
Reprocessing Facilities
- RT-1 Spent Fuel Reprocessing Facility
- Radioisotope Plant
- Plant B
- Plant BB
 
MOX Fuel Production Facilities
- Complex 300
- Granat Production Plant
- Paket Production Plant
- Pilot Bay
- Zhemchug Plant
 
Fissile Material Facilities
- Fissile material storage facility
- Plant 20 (plutonium processing, finishing, and component manufacturing)
 
Nuclear Waste Facilities
- Nuclear waste storage (reservoirs, storage tanks, and burial sites)
- Vitrification plant
- Interim pool storage (incomplete)
- Facility for "cleaning" low-level waste
 
Mayak Chemical Combine also has an instrumentation plant, an experimental research center, a central laboratory, and a repair and machine shop.
[Thomas B. Cochran, Robert S. Norris, and Oleg A. Bukhkarin, Making the Russian Bomb: From Stalin to Yeltsin (Boulder: Westview Press, 1995),  p. 75.]

Page last updated 8 January 2001
For major recent developments, see the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Developments file.
For archived developments, see the development sections in the individual facility files, as well as PO Mayak Developments.

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This material is produced independently for NTI by the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of and has not been independently verified by NTI or its directors, officers, employees, agents. Copyright © 2002 by MIIS.

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