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Far East
This facility is a Russian-designed commercial plant
for processing liquid radioactive waste.[1] Designed by Vladimir Bulygin, of
Ekoatom in Sosnovyy Bor, Sharya uses sorption based on zeolite and carbon fiber rather than conventional evaporation technology.[1,2]
Another Sharya facility is planned to serve the Northern Fleet, which currently
depends on facilities at Severodvinsk and the civilian nuclear shipyard
at Murmansk.[1]
5/96: SHARYA CLEANS UP 3000 MT OF WASTE
Sharya-4 has treated nearly 3,000 metric tons of liquid waste.
This new unit will operate for 20 years and will be able to decontaminate
the current stocks of radioactive waste as well as the components from
decommissioned nuclear submarines. The plant will also reprocess foreign
liquid radioactive waste, including Japanese. Out of the unit's yearly
capacity of 7,000 cubic meters of liquid radioactive waste, only 1,000
cubic meters will come from the Russian Pacific Fleet.
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