Krasnoyarsk-26

I read this book by sidney sheldon and found some interesting information

In Siberia, somewhere in the mountains, and 600 feet below, where only an elevator specially built can go, there's a place called krasnoyarsk-26.

it is a secret city and has been built like any othermodern city. but it's sole existence is for the cause of producing plutonium for building weapons of mass destruction. one hundred thousand scientists and technicians live and work there. in the beginning they were given the finest food and clothes and housing. but they are all there with one restriction that they must agree never to leave. they must cut themselves off completely from the rest of the world for the rest of their lives.

The plutonium is produced in a giant laboratory which has three enormous reactors housed in an immense cave. out of the three reactors, a single one out of them can produce enough plutonium to make anatomic bomb every three days. a single reactor produces half a ton of plutonium in an year, which is enough to make a hundred bombs. they have loads of plutonium stored, but the catch is, they can't stop producing more plutonium even if they want to, because the plutonium from the reactor furnishes the power for the city above. if the reactor is turned off, there will be no light and no heat and thepeople will quickly freeze to death. also, because of the poor state of the russian economy, there is no longer the money to pay the scientists and technicians. the homes they had been given have been deteriorating and there is no money to repair them. all the luxuries they had been given have disappeared and they haven't been paid for months. the people are getting desperate. the paradox is, the amount of plutonium stored there is worth untold millions of dollars, yet the people who created it have nothing andare starting to go hungry.

The secret underground city of krasnoyarsk-26 is one of the thirteen closed cities engaged in nuclear production. krasnoyarsk-26 is located in central siberia, two thousand miles from moscow, and since its creation, it has produced 45 tons of weapons grade plutonium (the book i read this in was published in 2000). although two of the reactors were shut down in1992, one remains active, currently producing half a ton of plutonium a year to make atomic bombs.this is a link where you can know more about it.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/krasnoyarsk-26_nuc.htm

Btw, the book i read all this in was called The sky is falling by sidney sheldon

If you have any interesting pieces of information, do post them, in the comments, and I'll post it here.

Love
Devil's Own