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KIROV, November 9 (Itar-Tass) - Over 9,600 air bombs and missile warhead filled with especially dangerous poisoning substances are undergoing detoxification at a facility for destruction of chemical weapons in the settlement of Maradykovo, Kirov region. The chief of the regional government's department of convention problems, Mikhail Manin, told ITAR-TASS on Thursday that this amount of disposal was a result of operation of the Maradykovo plant, whose first phase was launched on September 7. "The initial months of work are the most important period, during which checks of all services and systems ensuring safety and control of contaminating substances in the atmosphere air, water and soil, and environmental monitoring are going". Manin stressed that no violations of environmental standards had been registered over this period. Maradykovo is one of Russia's largest depots of chemical weapons. About 7,000 tons of war gases filling 40,000 air booms and missile warheads have been stored there since 1953. The Maradykovo arsenal is to be liquidated by 2012 under a federal programme of chemical weapons disposal. |
