Rosatom presents contaminated-land remediation and waste tracking at Geonext
At Geonext-2026 on 23 October, Rosatom described both remediation work and a digital system intended to track hazardous industrial waste from generation through processing.
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Rosatom used a plenary session at Geonext-2026 on 23 October to present a combination of contaminated-land remediation and digital tracking for hazardous industrial waste. The geological forum brought together more than 1,000 participants from 20 countries, according to the company. The presentation connected two stages of environmental management: dealing with contamination inherited from past industrial activity and improving oversight of waste generated in ongoing operations.
The release describes the corporation’s remediation work as covering a full cycle from site assessment through making a territory safe. It cited completed decommissioning, conservation and reclamation work at tailings facilities from former uranium production in Kyrgyzstan, plus a project at the Crystal plant. It also referred to cooperation with Belarus on unusable pesticides and with Vietnam on hazardous-waste disposal and accumulated environmental damage. The announcement does not specify project budgets, measured remediation outcomes or completion schedules for the ongoing work.
The digital element is the federal information system for monitoring hazardous industrial waste, known as FGIS OPVK. Rosatom’s Federal Environmental Operator runs the system. The company says it tracks waste from the location where it is generated through to processing, aiming to make handling steps visible and reduce uncontrolled accumulation. A tracking platform is not itself a treatment plant: its role is to register and monitor movement, while physical processing and safe disposal require separate facilities and operating controls.
Rosatom’s 2024 environmental report gives scale indicators for FGIS OPVK before the Geonext presentation. As of 31 December 2024, the report lists more than 116,300 users and 62,400 organisations on the system, alongside 66,500 contracts and 91,800 waste-removal applications. It reports that 79% of first- and second-class hazardous waste was recycled. The report also describes links to other state information systems and the platform’s role in regulator oversight and market-participant interactions. These figures show that the platform was already operating at national scale before the 2026 event, but they are administrative usage measures reported by Rosatom, not independent audit of environmental outcomes. In particular, they do not demonstrate that every movement was compliant or verify the named international remediation projects.
Rosatom presented remediation and waste tracking as complementary: remediation addresses environmental liabilities already present, while monitoring is intended to limit new unmanaged accumulation. The distinction is useful for mining and resource-development readers because both old tailings and current industrial waste can create long-duration obligations. The release demonstrates the range of work the corporation says it can undertake, but it does not independently verify the environmental performance of named projects or establish that the digital system eliminates illegal disposal. Those questions require site-level results and oversight data not provided in the announcement.
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