Development of International Cooperation in the Sphere of Recovery and Disposal of the Russian RTGs. Activities of the International Coordination Working Group on RTGs. Agenda item 4.8 (Presentation in English)

International programmes for decommissioning Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTGs) in Russia. Activities of the RTG working group in 2009. • Goals of the programme and the functions of the working group for RTGs. • The scope of problems and inventory of existing 588 RTGs in Russia. • Geographic areas of RTG locations in Russia. • RTG ownership by various ministries and agencies. • Description of schemes of RTG removal and prospects for securing RTGs by Russia, Norway, the United States and Canada in Northwest, North, Far-East areas of Russia, the Baltic Sea.