Cleaning Up Sites Contaminated with Radioactive Materials

This publication features papers presented at the Workshop on Cleaning Up Sites Contaminated with Radioactive Materials, held in Moscow in June 2007. This activity was organized by the National Academies in cooperation with the Russian Academy of Sciences and with funding provided by the Russell Family Foundation. The workshop was designed to promote exchanges of information on specific contaminated sites in Russia and elsewhere and to stimulate greater attention to the severity of the problems and the urgent need to clean up sites of concern to the local and international communities.


Table of Contents


Front Matter
Opening Remarks, 1 Welcoming Remarks--Nikolay Laverov
2 Welcoming Remarks--Frank L. Parker
3 Welcoming Remarks--David N. McNelis
4 Interests of the International Science and Technology
Center--Norbert Jousten
Overview Presentations, 5 Ensuring Nuclear and Radiation Safety in
the Use of Nuclear Energy for Peaceful Purposes--Andrei B. Malyshev
6 The Environmental Policy of the Russian Federal Atomic Energy
Agency (Rosatom) and Priority Objectives for its
Implementation--Aleksandr M. Agapov and Leonid A. Bolshov
7 Evaluation of Radiation Ecology Status Around Russian Nuclear and
Radiation Enterprises Based on Landscape-Geochemical Research--V.
I. Velichkin, Ye. N. Borisenko, A. Yu. Miroshnikov, V. I. Myskin,
N. V. Kuzmenkova, and I. I. Chudnyavtseva
8 Systems Studies of the Radiation Legacy and the Development of
the Informational, Legal, and Regulatory Framework for
Post-Rehabilitation Institutional Control, Oversight, and
Management of Radiation-Hazard Facilities in the Russian
Federation--S. N. Brykin, O. G. Lebedev, V. K. Popov, and D. A.
Serezhnikov
9 Comprehensive Resolution of the Problem of Radioactive Waste
Management and Rehabilitation of Contaminated Areas in the Moscow
Region--S. A. Dmitriev
Case Studies, 10 Lands Damaged as a Result of Uranium Ore Mining
Operations in the Russian Federation--V. P. Karamushka and V. V.
Ostroborodov
11 Uranium Recovery and Remediation of Uranium Mill Tailings:
Russian and U.S. Experience--James H. Clarke and Frank L. Parker
12 Experience in Rehabilitating Contaminated Land and Bodies of
Water Around the Mayak Production Association--Yu. V. Glagolenko,
Ye. G. Drozhko, and S. I. Rovny
13 Rehabilitation of Contaminated Groundwater Layers Near the Mayak
Enterprise Using Deep Burial Technology--V. G. Skidanov, Ye. N.
Kamnev, and A. I. Rybalchenko
14 Observations Concerning Mayak--Frank L. Parker
15 Remediation of Contaminated Facilities at the Kurchatov
Institute--V. G. Volkov, Yu. A. Zverkov, S. G. Semenov, A. V.
Chesnokov, and A. D. Shisha
16 Selected Remediation Issues at the Russian Research Center -
Kurchatov Institute--Roy E. Gephart
17 Industrial Nuclear Explosion Sites in the Russian Federation:
Recovery and Institutional Monitoring Problems--V. V. Kasatkin, Ye.
N. Kamnev, and V. A. Ilyichev
18 Comments on Presentation on Industrial Nuclear Explosion Sites
in the Russian Federation: Recovery and Institutional Monitoring
Problems--Don J. Bradley
19 The Past, Present, and Future of the Facilities at Andreev
Bay--A. P. Vasiliev
20 Environmental Remediation of Spent Nuclear Fuel and Radioactive
Waste Temporary Storage Facilities in Gremikha Village: Challenges
and Proposed Solutions--Yu. Ye. Gorlinsky, A. Yu. Kazennov, O. A.
Nikolsky, V. A. Pavlov, B. S. Stepennov, and A. F. Usaty
21 Criteria for Environmental Rehabilitation of the Temporary
Storage Site for Spent Nuclear Fuel and Radioactive Waste in
Gremikha Village--Yu. Ye. Gorlinsky, V. A. Kutkov, and N. K.
Shandala
22 Cleaning Up Sites Contaminated with Radioactive Materials:
Coastal Maintenance Bases Andreev Bay and Gremikha--Dieter K.
Rudolph
Other Contributions, 23 Criteria for Categorizing Territories at
Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency Enterprises Experiencing
Chemical and Radioactive Contamination--S. N. Brykin, N. K.
Shandala, N. S. Roznova, and A. V. Titov
24 Areas of the Russian Federation Affected by Radiation
Contamination Due to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Accident--S.
M. Vakulovsky, T. S. Borodina, A. A. Volokitin, V. M. Kim, G. I.
Petrenko, E. G. Tertyshnik, A. D. Uvarov, and V. N. Yakhryushin
25 The Experience of the Joint Environmental-Technological
Scientific Research Center for Radioactive Waste Decontamination
and Environmental Protection (MosNPO Radon) in Eliminating
Radiation-Hazard Facilities and Rehabilitating Contaminated
Sites--V. G. Safronov, V. A. Salikov, Yu. A. Pronin, and S. V.
Mikheikin
26 Use of GIS Technology for Assessing Territories Contaminated
with Radioactive Materials--A. N. Plate and A. V. Vesselovsky
Appendix A: Workshop Agenda
Appendix B: Titles of Additional Papers and Extended Abstracts
Presented at the Workshop on Cleaning Up Sites Contaminated with
Radioactive Material