19 February 2010 year

Nikolay Kuzelev, director general of VNIITFA, expert of nuclear section GD:

— I want to note that this target program reserved place also for new generation staff – it is the most serious deficiency which all of us face now. Nowadays we have severe deficiency among specialists, I speak not about young graduated, but about young associate professors and doctors, those scientists who can develop the positions held by modern Russian nuclear power sector and suggest new decisions, sometimes even seen as absurd at first sight. More

18 February 2010 year

Oleg Valenchuk, member of committee of the State Duma on economic policy and entrepreneurship:

— I think the main point in this draft law is that liability of RAW producer to pay for burial thereof is clearly stipulated. It is good that we managed to procure that Rosatom enterprises – and they are the main RAW producers – should finance all the work with the waste, up to final burial thereof. I think it will solve the issue in the part regarding new produced waste. More

17 February 2010 year

Eugeny Nikora, chairman of Murmansk regional Duma:

— I should emphasize that the process of the law approval is held in accordance with democratic proce-dures. Anyone who has his own view of this problem can express it in Internet, mass media, as well as in the framework of legislative process. More

16 February 2010 year

Saida Engstrem, director of public information department of SKB (Sweden):

— To have legislative framework for free handling of nuclear waste is not just necessary – it is precondition for making right decisions. Legislative standards define distribution of roles among all interested parties. It is important that certain person or organization responsible for waste management had legislatively fixed instruments and rules which are necessary to follow. More

16 February 2010 year

Georgy Lazarev, member of committee of State Duma on economic policy and entrepreneurship:

— I would mark out two main positive points in this draft law. First, for the first time legislatively guaranteed thesis appears in it which previously was absent in standard acts of the RF – it is obligatoriness of radioactive waste burial. Second, obligatoriness of RAW producers to pay for full cycle of handling thereof is formalized in legislation. More

15 February 2010 year

Vyacheslav Lysakov, Russian expert of IAEA on INPRO program:

— I think that centralized management of radioactive waste handling is necessary. Like EMERCOM monitors all emergencies, here it is necessary to maintain centralized accounting of all waste and manage it. Probably, some regional subdivisions will exist, because it will not be possible to manage everything from the center. More

12 February 2010 year

Konstantin Zaytsev, deputy chairman of committee on energy sector of State Duma of the RF:

— It is important to understand that the law not only fixes financial responsibility of enterprises for operation waste, but also registers all the waste which will be formed at decommissioning. It means that when the time comes, resources of the Fund will be enough for solving of all matters connected with treatment, transportation and final isolation of RAW. More

12 February 2010 year

Fedor Veselov, head of Laboratory on modeling of market state and regulation of energy markets of Institute of economic research of RAS:

— Nuclear power plant is such an object with wide radius of absorption of all kinds of resources – labor, raw stuff, construction, which is not limited only by place of its location. Moreover, the plant is not far from Vladimir region. And of course, it will also take resources of this neighbor region. More

11 February 2010 year

Allen Benson, Director, Communications and Outreach, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, U.S. Department of Energy:

— Rosatom leaders have been here and have visited our site. So, Rosatom is quite familiar and knows about what we are doing here. We spent a lot of time talking with them. It is very important for you to have a national policy which provides the basis for what it is you are going to do. More

11 February 2010 year

Mikhail Manin, the head of the administration of conventional problems of the Government of the Kirov region:

— The adoption of this law for the Kirov region is relevant and timely. Currently the Kirov-Chepetsk Branch FGUP “ROSRAO”contains about 440 thousand tons of radioactive waste, which were formed in the period of the Kirov-Chepetsk chemical plant of B.P Konstantinov. More

10 February 2010 year

Sergei Reshulsky, a member of the Duma Committee on Federation Affairs and Regional Policy:

— I believe that the proposed legislation on radioactive waste management is adequately developed. Of course, we must also carefully study the proposed amendments from environmentalists, community organizations, regional Legislative Assembly. More

10 February 2010 year

Igor Linge, deputy director of the Institute of Nuclear Safety (IONS RAS):

— We cannot just copy the Western laws on the treatment of waste, we can not, too, we launched situation. And it’s good that we will have a law that will force manufacturers to dispose both existing and newly formed radioactive waste. In addition, the law focuses on utilization heritage of the Soviet past. On this issue, yet, by the way, will be accepted by-laws, as to the waste a differentiated approach is necessary. More

09 February 2010 year

Olga Kosova, a leading engineer of “CIAC SGUK RV and ARW” “VNIIHT «JSC (Moscow) Administration of radioactive wastes:

— Thanks to this law, radioactive waste will be governed by a special company. If Earlier someone produced, sold, waste he did not bear responsibility for those wastes that rose from the use of radioactive substances. More

09 February 2010 year

Boris Kobelchuk, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources of the Stavropol Territory:

— So when we read the law, I was very pleased that it was made by analogy with the law on environmental protection. That is, there are general requirements for the disposal of radioactive waste and there are specific requirements for the placement, construction, operation and closure of disposal sites for radioactive waste. More

08 February 2010 year

Yuri Faleychik, chairman of the Committee on Environment, ecology and agriculture of the Legislative Assembly of Irkutsk region, the head of the Public Council on the safe use of nuclear energy in the Irkutsk region:

— The bill makes it clear that the polluter pays for everything. Special fund which will accumulate funds allocated for the safe disposal of radioactive waste is been made. Thus, this process will have executors, and the necessary finance. More

08 February 2010 year

Valentin Mezhevich, the first deputy chairman of the Federation Council Commission on Natural Monopolies:

— Manufacturers of waste will pay for its’ air-conditioning and disposal in fixed tariffs to the corresponding reserve funds. It is clear that this refers to the newly generated waste. I became acquainted with the objections of a number of environmental organizations on this bill, and they say that financing of the burial system of the «old» waste that has accumulated since the days of the Cold War is not mentioned in the bill. More

05 February 2010 year

Basil Zhurko, a member of Duma Committee on Natural Resources, Environment and Ecology:

— I would also like to note that the bill draws a clear boundary between the radioactive waste that must be disposed, and spent nuclear fuel (SNF), which can be used in the future. In this regard, I would like to note that the proposed law on radioactive waste in the future will need to be supplemented by another law — the law of spent nuclear fuel. More

05 February 2010 year

Claes Lindberg, SKB International Consultants AB President (Sweden):

— I think the Russian law is more detailed than some of such laws in some other countries. For example, the Swedish law is much briefer. More

04 February 2010 year

Igor Igoshin, deputy chairman of the Duma’s Committee on Science and High Technology:

— In fact, this problem — the treatment of radioactive waste must be solved and performed as soon as possible. The country has accumulated hundreds of millions of tons of waste, with 85% of them as a Soviet legacy. The minimum task is that we need to ensure that the number of waste disposal has become greater than the number of newly formed. If this bill passes, we can do this in 5–6 years. More

04 February 2010 year

Felix Alekseev, Distinguished Environmentalist of Russia, Kaliningrad Regional Duma deputy:

— All this is very timely steps. In general, we liked the bill very much, and perhaps many of the issues and challenges in this very dangerous area, he decided. If it does not remain on the paper, but will actually act, in the nuclear sphere it is a step forward for our state. More

02 February 2010 year

Sergei Baranovsky, President of Russian Ecological Congress, doctor of technical sciences, professor, academician of RANS:

— Under this law the producer of the waste will pay for it. But you still have military installations, nuclear submarines, medical waste and other legacy of Soviet times. Our organization is engaged in precisely the problems of the Cold War legacy — this is our main program. More