BOLSHOI KAMEN, Russian Far East. Nov 19 (Interfax-AVN) - A ceremony of commissioning the Landysh PZO-500 liquid nuclear waste processing unit was held at the Zvezda Federal State Unitary Enterprise on November 22, a spokesman for the plant's management told Interfax-Military News Agency on Monday.
The unit was developed within the framework of the program of eliminating nuclear weapon stocks that are to be reduced. The project is financed with funds allocated by Japan in 1993. The winner of the international tender was the US Babcock & Wilcox , the Zvezda plant is the enterprise operating the unit.
The Landysh floating unit satisfies the highest safety standards adopted both in Russia and abroad. The test run of the unit was initiated as far back as late last year, approximately 1.500 cubic meters of liquid nuclear waste having been processed since then.
The annual output of the unit mounts up to 7,000 cubic meters of liquid nuclear waste. This is enough to process all the waste produced through employing and scraping the nuclear submarines in the Far East. The purification level of the waste excels standards applied to drinkable water.