Sverdlovsk-44:(Renamed: Novouralsk; also known as Verkh-Nayvinsk)
Past weapons-grade and other HEU production; "blending down" of weapons-grade uranium from dismantled warheads into LEU.
NO
Yes
Unsafeguarded
Large quantities of HEU from dimantled weapons are present at a blending facility. Although the USSR stopped HEU production for weapons in 1989, weapons-grade HEU produced in the 1980s may be stored at Sverdlovsk-44, which remains the only Russian facility licensed to produce HEU (enriched up to 30%).
In January 1996, Sverdlovsk was selected as a site to receive Material Protection Control &Accountability improvements.
