The core activities of the CIS Base Organization are related to assisting the member states in solving tasks related to the management of spent nuclear fuel, radioactive waste and its final containment, as well as decommissioning of nuclear and radiation hazardous facilities.

At present, more than 40 nuclear legacy facilities are located in six CIS countries - Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan - including nuclear power plants, various radiation sources, RAW storage sites and other facilities that need to be decommissioned and the adjacent territories rehabilitated.

Work with nuclear legacy facilities in the Russian Federation is carried out in accordance with the federal program to ensure nuclear and radiation safety, under which it is planned to decommission 76 facilities by 2035.

Two large-scale projects are being developed on the territory of all member states of the CIS Base Organization. The first is a comprehensive program to bring nuclear legacy facilities in the CIS countries to a safe condition, under which an inventory of existing nuclear legacy facilities was made, a unified register was formed, and the order of their decommissioning was determined, starting with the most dangerous ones.

The second, but not less important project is related to the creation of legal and normative-technical regulation in the field of RAW and SNF management and decommissioning of NRHF in the CIS countries. Work on the unified concept began in 2022, scheduled to be completed within two years.

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