Mayak (Chelyabinsk)

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Facility Data

Fuel Cycle Facilities

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Fuel cycle plants at this site, as listed in the IAEA Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities Database: what each plant does, its scale and design capacity, the years it operated, its current status and who operates it.
3 facilities: 3 in operation.
Facility Type Scale Design Capacity Operated Status Operator
RT-1, Mayak, Reprocessing Plant Site AFR Wet Spent Fuel Storage (Pool) Commercial 560 t HM 1975– In Operation Mayak Production Association
RT-1 Plant Spent Fuel Reprocessing - aqueous route Commercial 400 t U/year 1977– In Operation Mayak Production Association
Mayak - Paket MOX fuel fabrication (Mox Powder, Pellet, Pin, FA) Pilot plant 0.5 t HM/year 1980– In Operation Mayak Production Association
Source: IAEA Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities Database (NFCFDB), as of 2026-10-13.

Working Here

Per Diem Rates FY 2026

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Per diem covers lodging and meals & incidental expenses (M&IE) for government and contractor travel near this facility. Rates are from the U.S. State Department foreign per diem tables for FY 2026.
$173
Lodging/Night
$112
M&IE/Day
$285
Total/Day
Russia: rate for locations the State Department does not list separately
U.S. Department of State foreign per diem, for U.S. government and contractor travel.

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Facility Map

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Interactive satellite map showing the facility's geographic location. Marker color indicates current status: green for online, red for offline, orange for reduced power. Click the header to open in Google Maps satellite view.

55.6928, 60.8055

Location & Contact

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Physical address, phone number, and website for this facility. Use the directions link to get driving directions via Google Maps.
Address:
Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia
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About This Site

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Written by NukeWorker from public records: facts that do not change. Operator, status and capacity come from the live data elsewhere on this page. Sources: Wikipedia: Mayak.

Mayak is a Soviet-era plutonium production and nuclear materials complex near Ozyorsk in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. It was built in secrecy between 1945 and 1948 and was organized as the Mayak Production Association in 1948.

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Its first plutonium production reactor, Reactor A, began operation on June 19, 1948, and supplied material for the first Soviet nuclear weapon test in 1949. Between 1949 and 1951, radioactive waste was discharged into the Techa River, and from 1951 Lake Karachay was used as a waste basin. On September 29, 1957, a cooling-system failure caused a chemical explosion in a waste storage tank (the Kyshtym disaster), rated level 6 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.