ABSTRACT
The Siberian Chemical Combine, known also by its code name Tomsk-7, was thus founded on the Tom River in Tomsk Oblast, about 15 km northwest of the city of Tomsk. Tomsk-7 is the site of the Siberian Atomic Power Station, a chemical separation plant, facilities for plutonium processing and blending and pit fabrication, plutonium storage, an enrichment plant, and nuclear waste management facilities. The four dual-purpose reactors at Tomsk-7 have closed cycle cooling systems, with heat transferred from the closed primary loop to the secondary loop via an intermediate heat exchanger. Both Tomsk and Krasnoyarsk are on the southeastern border of the Western Siberian artesian groundwater basin. The Sosnovoborsk power and heating plant, under construction near Krasnoyarsk, has been cited as the source of replacement power. But this plant is too far removed to supply steam to the closed city at Krasnoyarsk-26, and in any case, there is public opposition to completing the pla.
