How they served in cleaning

The tender announced by the Rosatom State Corporate Rosatom in the purification of the territory of the Mayak plant in the Ozersk, the Chelyabinsk Region, is associated with the implementation of long -planned events within the framework of the Federal Target Program to Eliminate the consequences of the 1957 accident. This was stated by the representative of Rosatom Andrei Ivanov, reports RIA Novosti.

“We continue to work on the liquidation of the Soviet nuclear heritage.“ Rosatom ”successfully implemented work as part of the first federal target program (FCP -1), it had work to eliminate the radioactive lake of Karachay on the“ Lighthouse ”. Now we begin without exaggeration of historical events that are connected with the world -famous sad milestone in the Lighthouse,” Ivanov said.

“For more than a year, a procurement plan has been posted on the website of the FCP Yarb-2 program, including these works. If someone now tries, after the conclusions of the interdepartmental commission on the“ Mayak ”, to imagine that this is the work related to Rutheneni-106, then this is not a indication of unprofessionalism, but a direct interest,” the representative of Rosatoma emphasized.

On Saturday, RBC reported to RBC on November 29 on the public procurement website. According to the competition documentation , we are talking about a area of ​​30 thousand square meters. It was polluted in the 1957 accident, when a container with high-acting waste collapsed, as well as in 1967, when radioactive deposits were scattered from the dry coast of Lake Karachai, where the waste was drained. "The main radionuclides are Cesius-137 and Stontius-90," the documents say.

In early October, European monitoring stations recorded the excess of the ruthenium-106 content in the air . Given the weather conditions, it was concluded that a cloud with radioactive isotopes could come from the Urals. The isotope in the discovered quantities did not represent dangers to the environment and people.

From September 26 to October 1, it was recorded "extremely high pollution" of the air by the Rutheneniya-106 particles in the Ural monitoring stations, the Roshydromet reported in November. In particular, at the station in the village of Argayash, 30 kilometers from Mayak, excess compared to the background value was 986 times.

On November 21, Greenpeace appealed to the Prosecutor General and Rosatom with a demand to investigate a possible incident that led to an atmosphere of a radioactive isotope. "The emergency release of Rutheneniya-106 at the Mayak plant may be associated with the glazing of the spent nuclear fuel. It is also possible to get a material containing rutheniya-106 into the furnace for remelting of metals," noted Greenpeace.

The press service of Mayak said that pollution is not related to the activities of the plant. "On the FSUE" by Mayak "in 2017 sources from Ruthenenia-106 were not made, emissions into the atmosphere were in ordinary regulatory values. Radiation background is normal. Additionally, we inform that the work on the release of ruthenium -106 from the exposed nuclear fuel (and manufacturing on its basis of sources of ionizing radiation) at our enterprise has not been carried out for many years, ”the message said.

On Friday, Rosatom said that the source of the Rutheneniya Isotope could be on board an artificial satellite burned in the atmosphere. This conclusion was reached by the interagency commission specially created by the state corporation, which conducted an additional check of the radiation situation on the "lighthouse". The measurements of control samples did not reveal the presence of ruthenia-106 in them. The commission also did not find violations in the operation of the radiation monitoring system "Mayak".

In Greenpeace, the commission was not satisfied. “This is not like research in order to identify the source source,” Rashid Alimov, head of the anti -core program of the Russian branch Greenpeace. Ecologists believe that "the incident should be investigated so that in the future this does not lead to even more serious consequences and concealing significant information."

On September 29, 1957, a large radiation accident occurred on the Mayak. In Soviet times, the accident was called Kyshtymskaya, in the nearest open city of Kyshtym. "Mayak" then was engaged in the development of weapons of plutonium. The explosion occurred in a container for radioactive waste. The cause of the accident was the failure of the cooling system. About 6 thousand people were resettled from the radiation infection zone. At the same time, the evacuation of the population from the most affected villages began only 7-14 days after the accident. The radiation cloud of power was given out for the northern lights. The exact number of those who died and suffered from the consequences of the accident is unknown.