Publication

The decommission network project “From closed rooms to openness” was started by environmental NGOs from North West Russia in 2003, when the oldest nuclear units had reached their design limit, but continued operation. In this report, we present 10 achievements from the first ten years of the project.

This booklet was distributed among delegates of the UN climate change conference COP17 in Durban, SA, December 2011.
The main position of NGOs was: NGO believe that the conference should provide significant progress in working out the new legally binding international agreement. Until such agreement will have been adopted; the second period of the Kyoto protocol shall be in force.

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 The Concept mission is to involve authorities, nuclear industry and general Russian public in the process of the timely planning of safe decommissioning of nuclear power units, which have reached

their design lifecycle limit. The Concept summarizes the world experience on nuclear power unit decommissioning.

The report aims to tell the story of the Russian decommission reserve, the historical background and present situation. Using open sources and letters to authorities, the report presents far more knowledge than was available before. In addition, the report provides background facts about Kola and Leningrad NPPs.