Plutonium production reactor in Seversk shut down

The ADE-4 plutonium production reactor at the Siberian Chemical Combine (SKhK) in Seversk/Tomsk-7 was shut down at 11:00am on April 20, 2008 (here is a detailed description of the shutdown). The second Seversk reactor, ADE-5, will be shut down on June 5th, 2008.