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The Novozemelsky nuclear test site is ready to resume nuclear tests if necessary

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Vyacheslav Solovyov, scientific director of the Russian Federal Nuclear Center - the All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics, explained that "there is a special program in place to maintain the readiness of the landfill"MOSCOW, February 8.

/tass/. The Novozemelsky nuclear test site is ready to resume nuclear tests if necessary and with the appropriate political will. Vyacheslav Solovyov, scientific director of the Russian Federal Nuclear Center - the All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics, told TASS on Wednesday.

"Ready," he said, answering the relevant question.

Solovyov explained that "there is a special program in place to maintain the readiness of the landfill."

The landfill on Novaya Zemlya is under the jurisdiction of the 12th Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. 130 tests were carried out on its territory from September 21, 1955 to October 24, 1990: 88 atmospheric, 3 underwater and 39 underground. 

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