POSSIBLE URANIUM MILLS DNEPRODZERZHINSK, USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T04751A000300020003-8
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• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 2001
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: March 1, 1960
• Content Type: BRIEF

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PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE BRIEF
C IA. PIC
SUBJECT : Possible Uranium Mills NO : PIC/B-3/60
LOCATION : Dneprodzerzhinsk, USSR DATE: 1 March 1960
WAC NO : 234 LAT : 48?30'N
LONG: 34?41'E
ACIC. Target. Complex Chart, Series 500, No 0234-9999-500, 2nd ed,
Oct 1953. (C)
ACIC. Target Complex Chart, Series 100, No 0234-9999-100A., 2nd
ed, Aug 1952. (S)
A.CIC. Target Complex Mosaic, Series 25, No 0234-9999-25MA., 3rd
ed, Aug 1952. (S)
Four previously unreported possible uranium mills are located on the
south bank of the Dnepr River at Dneprodzerzhinsk, just north of the Dnepro-
dzerzhinsk Nitrogen Combine. This is the largest number of uranium mills
reported at any single locality in the Soviet Union. The complex of four
mills occupies a double-fenced, rail-served, roughly rectangular area 1, 370
by 5, 140 feet. Each mill consists of an ore storage building, a crushing
building, a grinding building, and a long chemical precipitation building with
steam escaping from many roof vents. Sixteen liquid reagent tanks occupy a
prominent position beside one of the ore preparation buildings. No thickeners
are visible by any of the mill buildings. Some mill tailings have been dis-
charged into a corner of the fenced enclosure. Three of the mills also dis-
charge tailings through large-diameter pipes to a valve house. Thence the
fines are conveyed 3, 150 feet by a large diameter pipe into a divided trape-
zoidal-shaped tailings pond averaging 3, 380 by 6, 120 feet near the Dnepr
River.
A possible ore bedding yard and a construction products plant adjoin.
the uranium mill complex on the east. Steam and possibly various chemical
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reagents are supplied by pipelines from the Nitrogen Combine which adjoins
the uranium mills on the south.
A. previously unreported rail-served, double fenced ore dump is located
south of Taramskoye at 48025'N/34046'E, along a rail spur which runs into
the uranium mill compleq. This rail spur joins the main-line railroad running
eastward to Dnepropetrovsk from the uranium mining districts of Pyatikhatki-
Zheltaya Reka.
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