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An International Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility: Exploring a Russian Site as a Prototype - Proceedings of an International Workshop
BOX 1 List of Scientific Organizations and Geological Enterprises Involved in Efforts to Identify a Site for the Safe Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Wastes from the Mining-Chemical Complex and the RT-2 Plant
Minatom organizations and enterprises
Radium Institute
Mining-Chemical Complex
All-Russia Scientific Research and Design Institute for Industrial Technology
Krasnoyarsk branch of the All-Russia Scientific Research and Design Institute for Energy Technology
Universities
St. Petersburg State University Scientific Research Institute of the Earth’s Crust
Krasnoyarsk State University Scientific Research Physical-Technical Institute
Institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Geological Institute
Institute of the Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry
Other organizations and enterprises
Krasnoyarsk Branch of the Nature State Research and Production Center
Krasnoyarsk Scientific Research Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources
Gravimetric Expedition No. 3, Krasnoyarsk
Krasnoyarsk Geological Survey
Northern Geological Party of the Joint-Stock Company Yeniseigeofizika
All-Russia Institute for Prospecting and Ore Geophysics
Ecology and Geodynamics Research and Production Center
Center for Electromagnetic Research
including socioeconomic and demographic data, indicated that an appropriate geologic formation should be sought within the bounds of the crystalline base of the Siberian platform among the magmatic and metamorphic rock of the southern part of the Yenisei ridge, a boundary structure for the Siberian platform that reveals its crystalline base (see Figure 1).
The concept for the site search was based on the idea that the segment of Earth’s crust being sought must be distinguished by a sufficient degree of homogeneity and by minimal fracturability and permeability of adjoining rock formations. Initially about 20 potentially suitable sites were identified in the southern
