Organizational and Economic Mechanisms of Managing Liquidation of Nuclear Heritage

The article studies problems of managing units of nuclear heritage in Russia on the final stage of their life cycle connected with low effectiveness of measures used in practical work, which are caused mainly by deficiency of the regulatory framework. The author investigated overseas and Russian practices in the field of organization and support of operations aimed at liquidation of nuclear heritage units, conducted comparative analysis of organizational and finance mechanisms to control this work. Recommendations were elaborated on organization and financing operations dealing with security and putting out off work nuclear heritage units in Russia, meeting the best practices, on the basis of a specialized organization, i.e. heritage operator. The key functions of the heritage operator are identification and registration of units, including systematization of all attainable data concerning them; estimation of safety and finance and economic parameters; long-term planning on the basis of unit ranging and acting as a commissioner of work on their liquidation. Financing of such operations could be provided by co-financing by state, which is a customer and key consumer of products of nuclear heritage units and operating organizations. Taking into account the Russian practice in the field of resolving accumulated problems of nuclear heritage the proposed mechanisms could be implemented within the frames of specialized federal law.