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Russia's Nuclear Complex
location
Sverdlovsk-45 (Renamed: Lesnoy).

activity
Final warhead assembly and dismantlement.

plutonium
Yes.

Weapons-grade uranium
Yes.

IAEA safeguards status
Unsafeguarded.

comments
This is one of Russia's larger weapons dismantlement sites. In 1992, Minatom Minister Viktor Mikhailov indicated that Sverdlovsk was dismantling 1500 weapons per year.

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