Rosatom will spend billions on the storage of nuclear waste near Krasnoyarsk

Rosatom is looking for a contracting organization that will build railway tracks at the grave of radioactive waste in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The corporation will spend more than 1.7 billion rubles on work.

A competition was announced for “Construction of off -rate and internal railway tracks, a gestation base at the facility of the final isolation of radioactive waste as part of an underground research laboratory”.

“The ban on the admission of works carried out by foreign persons (with the exception of persons of the states of the Eurasian Economic Union) has been established,” the procurement documents noted.

The underground research laboratory is built 6 km from ZAO Zheleznogorsk and 4.5 km from the Yenisei River. In July, Rosatom reported that the main amount of work on the creation of an autonomous energy complex for the construction and functioning of the facility has already been completed.

In the underground laboratory, research will be held to determine the possibility of safe isolation of radioactive waste (RAO) of grades 1 and 2 in Gneis -rocks of the Nizhnekansky rock massif.

“The search for the site for the possible placement of the final isolation of the RAO and 2 classes was performed for more than 20 years. To date, a set of engineering surveys has been carried out on the site, which made it possible to conclude that the geo-Gneis geo-environment in Archean Gneis in the target interval of depths is 450-550 m. However, the task of a comprehensive engineering and geophysical examination cannot be recognized as completely solved, since the existing ground methods for studying the geological environment and the results of deep drilling cannot To fully submit the necessary and reliable information about the interaction of deep -laying structures with accommodating rocks and underground waters, and about the processes occurring in the “waste - engineering barriers - geological environment”, ” the website of the National Radioactive Waste Waste Waste, which acts as a customer of construction work on the laboratory.

By 2025, it is planned to fully complete the construction and move on to scientific research. The estimated date of the decision on the possibility of waste disposal is 2030.

The prospect of the burial of dangerous waste near Krasnoyarsk causes a negative reaction in the public. So, on the website Change.org there is a collection of signatures against the construction of the facility. “For the sake of dubious business and political illusions, the Siberian land will be poisoned for many thousands of years, and Russia risks forever turn into a colonial appendage of the international nuclear industry,” the appeal says .