VILYUCHINSK, Kamchatka Peninsula. Sept 3 (Interfax-AVN) - A specialists group from the Ekoatom company located in the Leningrad region will completed its work at the 49th ship- repairing plant located in the town of Vilyuchinsk in the Kamchatka Peninsula by late this week, a spokesman for the Kamchatka troops group headquarters said on Tuesday.
"During 11 weeks the group led by Academician Vladimir Bulygin removed over 100 worn out uranium channels from the floating workshop that is to be written off. The channels were earlier taken away from nuclear reactors of scrapped submarines. The group also cleared 6t of high-enriched liquid radioactive wastes transforming them into low-enriched ones," the spokesman said.
He stressed that the worn out channels will be delivered to the Maritime Territory on a special vessel and later placed into a nuclear repository. "Low-enriched water will be later cleared at a plant in Vilyuchinsk and the modern equipment will help make it potable," the spokesman went on.
According to specialists, the radiation near the town is in norms.
Due to Bulygin's mediation five people from his group will be given state awards, the spokesman added.