Rocket Fuel Component - Melange

Environment and Security InitiativeAdvisory Board Meeting

29-30 September 2005

Bratislava

Raul Daussa, OSCE

Melange – a Cold War legacy

Storage Conditions

Mélange Handling

Tank Corrosion - leakages

Affected Area

Dangerous Zone

Deadly Zone

Melange 100 м3

2 км

25 км

Wind can move Melange cloud up to 80 km !!!

Mélange Destruction - Ongoing

Country Populated area within 80 km

zone

Amount Melange (t)

not usable

Status

Armenia

1 Spitak 872 OngoingFully FundedOSCE

Georgia 1 450 Completed - OSCE

Moldova

1 352 Completed - NAMSA

Mélange Storages Country Populated area within 80 km

zoneAmount Melange (t)

not usableStatus

Azerbaijan 2 Elat, Pirsaat, Qubustan, Sangacal, Primorsk, Baku, Mengichevir

1,400NATO Mobile Plant to eliminate melangeNATO-OSCE Remediation works under consideration

Kazakhstan

5 Alma-Aty, Karaganda, Kapshagay, Sarazersk, Ust-Kamenogorsk

1,500

Ukraine 8 Bela Zerkov, Shevchenkovo, Solenoe Ozero, Konstantinovka, Lubashovka, Kalinovka, Zenzhiev, Rodehov, dozens of villages

16,500

Uzbekistan 1 Samarkand, Oqtosh 1,100

TOTAL pending

20.500

ENVSEC involvement

• Co-funded the Phase I Assessment in Armenia with 15.000 USD, facilitating a final project of Melange destruction worth 1.5 M USD.

• Co-funded the joint OSCE-NATO workshop on Melange and the Phase I assessment in Ukraine with 15.000 USD.