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.