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The support comes from the European Cohesion Fund and covers the full cost of the research.

It is a nationally important project, and the government made the financing decision on 21 August 2014.

The preliminary studies are necessary to remove in 2040 the two reactor sections in the Paldiski nuclear object, and to take the radioactive waste that emerges during the work, to a disposal facility.

The preliminary studies are headed by AS A.L.A.R.A., which manages the nuclear site since 1995.

The studies will be followed by environmental impact assessments, application for permits, designing the disposal facility and its construction, and only then dismantling the reactor sections can start.

By now, A.L.A.R.A. has dismantled 36 of the 39 unnecessary buildings in Paldiski. The main building containing reactor sections, garage and security building are still there.

There is an interim storage for radioactive waste at the object, where all the radioactive waste generated in Estonia is stored.

In 1989, the reactors were stopped in the Paldiski Soviet Navy nuclear submarine training centre, built in the beginning of the 1960s. The nuclear fuel was removed five years later.