The System Built to Manage Russia’s Nuclear Legacy Is Crumbling

The System Built to Manage Russia’s Nuclear Legacy Is Crumbling

For more than three decades, Russia has been burdened with the remains of the Soviet nuclear project: a vast, sprawling, largely invisible inheritance of contaminated territories, derelict facilities, spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste.  The nuclear legacy is a dangerous and extraordinarily expensive accumulation of hazards that still sits along the country’s Arctic coastlines, forests and former naval bases. It threatens the well-being of…

The system built to manage Russia’s nuclear legacy is crumbling, our new report shows

Our op-ed originally appeared in The Moscow Times. For more than three decades, Russia has been burdened with the remains of the Soviet nuclear project: a vast, sprawling, largely invisible inheritance of contaminated territories, derelict facilities, spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste.  The nuclear legacy is a dangerous and extraordinarily expensive accumulation of hazards that still sits along the country’s Arctic coastlines, forests and…