Upgrading Security at Nuclear Power Plants in the Newly Independent States
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As of 1996, 48 nuclear power reactors were operating in five newly independent states (NIS) of the former Soviet Union: 29 units at nine sites in Russia, 15 units at five sites in Ukraine, a double unit plant in Lithuania, and one unit each in Armenia and Kazakstan. These nuclear power facilities need to be reliably protected against possible radiological sabotage or terrorism. The post-Soviet transition in the NIS has been marked by ethnic and political conflicts, crime, and societal instabilities. Nuclear power facilities are not immune from these maladies and face a broad range of threats. Indeed, potentially catastrophic releases of radioactivity and resultant global societal dislocations make the NIS nuclear industry a particularly attractive target for industrial sabotage.
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