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Work on decontaminating and decommissioning radioactively contaminated rooms and equipment has been conducted at the All-Russia Research Institute of Standardization in Machine Engineering since 1999. Organizational and technical measures to consolidate the material and human resources and centralized planning of all work on decontamination, rehabilitation, and waste handling have been developed at the Institute. A scientific and industrial division whose main purpose is to provide comprehensive solutions to all ecological problems of the Institute has been created. Because of the large scale of the problems, special attention is being devoted to the economics of the technical solutions adopted and to minimizing the handling of wastes with definite priority given to the safety. Experience shows that several effective, low-waste technologies must be used in each specific case for decontaminating and localizing radioactive contamination taking account of the specific nature of the object.
Performing decontamination work to meet Institute's needs has fostered the development of new, effective technical means for decontamination, specifically, the development of bench facilities for laser, electrochemical, and foam decontamination and facilities for soil decontaminations, and other means.
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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 105, No. 1, pp. 44–48, July, 2008.
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Poluektov, P.P., Sukhanov, L.P., Chernikov, M.A. et al. Decontamination and decommissioning of radioactively contaminated rooms and equipment at the Bochvar All-Russia Research Institute of Standardization in Machine Engineering. At Energy 105, 60–64 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-008-9063-4
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