Former defense reprocessing plant in Seversk to be decommissioned

According to the 2014 annual report released by the Siberian Chemical Combine in Seversk (Tomsk-7), the enterprise began decommissioning of its reprocessing plant, RKhZ (Radiochemical Plant), which was part of the Soviet/Russian defense nuclear complex. The plant reprocessed last uranium fuel irradiated in the plutonium production reactors in 2009 (the last Seversk reactors were shut down in 2008). In 2013 it completed reprocessing of other material left from the program.