Table 1: Radioactive wastes stored at sites of various ministries in Russia^a

Source: Bulletin of the Center for Public Information on Atomic Energy, No. 6, 1996, p. 14.

Source of wastes	Type of waste	Volume, cubic meters (m3)	Activity, curies (Ci)	Place of storage
Minatom sites
Extraction and mining	Mine and mill tailings (low-level)	1.0x108	1.8x105	Tailings storage and piles
Uranium enrichment and fuel fabrication	Liquid and solid (low-level)	1.6x106	4.0x103	Tailings storage, warehouses and sites
Energy production at nuclear reactors	Liquid concentrates (medium-level)	1.5x105	4.2x104	Tanks, storage facilities at power plants
	Solid (low- and medium-level)	1.2x105	1.0x103	Storage facilities at power plants
	Hardened/solidified (medium-level)	1.6x104	1.0x103	Storage facilities at power plants
Fuel reprocessing and production of weapons materialsb	Liquid (high-level)	2.5x104	5.7x108	Tanks at Tomsk-7, Krasnoyarsk-26, Mayak (Chelyabinsk-65)
	Vitrified (high-level)	9.5x103	2.0x108	Storage facility at Mayak
	Liquid (low- and medium-level), including pulp	4.0x108	7.0x108	Tanks, reservoirs, pools
	Solid (low- and medium-level)	1.0x108	1.2x107	Above-ground storage at sites
Ministry of Defense
Operation of nuclear submarines	Liquid (low-level)	1.4x104	1.8x102	On- and offshore bases
	Solid (low-level)	1.3x104	8.0x102	Onshore storage facilities
Ministry of Transportation
Operation of nuclear icebreakers and container ships	Liquid (low-level)	3.9x102	0.6	Onshore storage facilities
	Solid (low-level)	1.36x103	2.1x102	Onshore storage facilities
	Solid (high-level)	1.04x102	2.0x104	Onshore storage facilities
State Committee on Defense Industries
Construction and use of nuclear submarines	Liquid (low-level)	2.5x103	5.0x102	On- and offshore bases
	Solid (low-level)	1.5x103	1.0x102	Storage facilities at sites
Ministry of Building/Construction
Use of radioactive sources	Liquid, solid, and solidified wastes, encapsulated sources of ionizing radiation	2.0x105	2.0x106	"Radon" facilities