-We expect a new law on the handling of radioactive wastes to be adopted by the end of the year, deputy head of Rosatom Yevgenii Yevstratov confirmed. The law will help significantly limit the number of waste storage sites. -The number of storage sites for radioactive wastes number thousands, and they are difficult to monitor, he underlined, adding that many of them have existed for a “quite long time” and that security fences around the sites are “degrading”. A part of Rosatom’s plans is the construction of a new major underground storage in the Nizhnekamskie mountains, western Siberia, to which many of the smaller sites will be removed. Rosatom also plans to establish a new specialized organisation on the handling of the wastes, Mr. Yevstratov told Regnum.
