Tadjikistan will pick up thread processing of uranium After ten year interruption, processing of uranium must again begin in the north of Tadjikistan. A rossiysko-tadzhikskoe enterprise intends processing of radio-active wastes, located in Sogdiyskoy of area, to engage,
created on the base of production amalgamation “Vostokredmet”. The booty of uranium in north Tadjikistan was begun as early as years of the second world war, writes Deutsche Welle. According to the director of branch of Agency on nuclear and radiation safety of Numondzhona Khakimova, the first experimental factory from 1943 produced radium hand-crafted.
"Left prisoners of war, which in hand obtained ore, brought it on donkeys, and treatment went a hand method", – Khakimov tells. combine 6, – namely an enterprise was so named on a booty and processing of uranium ores on the base of deposits
To middle Asia, – was created already in 1945. This was the first combine on the booty of atomic raw material in the former Soviet union. Exactly here from local sources was obtained and processed uranium for the first soviet a-bomb. Thus at building of factory and new cities
in blizi factory and mineries labour of the German prisoners of war and subjected to repression soviet soldiers was also used. Before long only in the north of Tadjikistan it was started already 7 factories on the booty of uranium.As far as exhaustion of local mineries raw material is for processing
left from Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kirghizia and other countries. The result of all this activity was become by that today the over 50 million tons of radio-active wastes accumulated in north Tadjikistan. It is one of the largest burial places of uranium wastes in
world. Exactly these wastes and intend to process the created tadzhiksko-rossiyskoe enterprise.Calculations on the second processing of uranium wastes were conducted to beginning of global economic crisis and then this activity yet could bring in a return.
Today, taking into account a price-cutting on power mediums, doizvlechenie of uranium became practically nerentabel’nym. Deputy of director general of proizvodstvennog
wretched. According to his opinion, if in them there were other elements and doizvlekali and them, then, possibly, work would be profitable. "However to extract only uranium for today and in the near future – nerentabel’no", – an expert marks, promising to study this question
and to examine other variants.Besides other, Yunusov adds, the planned processing does not decide a question about ecological safety of wastes, because after extraction of uranium there is a row of other radio-active elements in them. Such wastes are in any
case it is necessary to insulate.In connection with the possible processing of uranium wastes before environmentalists which these throughout the year tried to find facilities on their complete burial place, other problem gets up. State only one of 10 khvostokhranilisch of north Tadjikistan answers
to the international standards of safety and it is covered by a protective layer which must make more than two meters. Other need serious rehabilitation, and the about 300 million dollars of the USA which at the government of Tadjikistan are needed for this purpose, certainly,
it is not. Last years by mudstone streams protective soil was two times washed off already, and the loss of radio-active wastes happened.A situation is complicated and that uranium wastes are located near-by the transfrontal rivers through which they can reach to other countries Central
To Asia. All of it is accompanied by neprekraschayuschimisya excavations on the places of burial places by locals which search the coloured metals for subsequent realization or use in the way of life. According to the chief of department of Management on the guard of environment in Sogdiyskoy
areas of Askara Abduvalieva, now in the case of cut-in of new enterprise it is necessary it will be to search a new place for uranium burial places. A danger consists in that, Abduvaliev talks, that in the moment of dissection of old khvostokhranilisch they on some period
it will be remained time by opened. Also, according to him, it is needed to define a place for new khvostokhranilischa, taking into account all failings which the old had. "An additional question stands in trucking taking into account safety of all settlements,
which they will pass", – an expert marks, underlining that neither for them nor at guidance of the created enterprise of such project it yet is not.Remains unknown, whether will be picked up thread in Tadjikistan booty of raw uranium. According to local experts, practically
all mineries of north of republic were exhausted as early as the 50-kh years of the last century, and uranium it is needed to obtain and leave from south districts. Transportation of ore on a north is problematic, because railway compositions must will be pass through nearby Uzbekistan,
which already a long ago forbade transit of radio-active loads through the territory.President of Tadjikistan Emomali Rakhmon repeatedly invited other countries to the collaboration in processing of radionuclidess, declaring that in Tadjikistan it is located near
13 percents of world supplies of uranium. In Main administration of geology of Tadjikistan not able to confirm these information, marking that after disintegration of Soviet Union of reconnaissance works in this direction not conducted and unknown them, who passed to the president these
information. Meantime at the end of past week between Tadjikistan and China an agreement about processing of uranium was also signed. The details of agreement while are not known.Meantime three public servants of production amalgamation "Vostokredmet" were detained
on suspicion of espionage in behalf on nearby Uzbekistan. Investigation in this business is not yet complete. The attorney of one of detained marked that the detained was laid only to exceeding of post plenary powers and about espionage of speech does not go. Nevertheless, judicial
a process will pass in the closed mode.
