Editing Seversk (section)

==Economy==
Seversk is the site of the [[Siberian Chemical Combine]], founded in 1954. It comprises several [[nuclear reactor]]s and chemical plants for separation, enrichment, and reprocessing of [[uranium]] and [[plutonium]]. Following an agreement in March 2003 between [[Russia]] and the [[United States]] to shut down Russia's three remaining plutonium-producing reactors, two of the three plutonium producing reactors (the two that are situated in Seversk, at the [[Sibirskaya Nuclear Power Plant]]) were shut down.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://world-nuclear-news.org/print.aspx?id=18136|title=Russia shuts second plutonium-producing reactor at Seversk|date=6 June 2008|publisher=World Nuclear News|access-date=August 26, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726095422/http://world-nuclear-news.org/print.aspx?id=18136|archive-date=July 26, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>The remaining operating production reactor is sited at [[Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai|Zheleznogorsk in Krasnoyarsk Krai]].</ref>

[[Nuclear weapon|Nuclear warheads]] are produced and stored on the premises. One of the most serious [[nuclear accident]]s at SGCE{{explain|reason=What is SGCE?|date=April 2024}} occurred on April&nbsp;6, 1993, when a tank containing a highly [[radioactivity|radioactive]] solution exploded (see [[Seversk#Tomsk-7 explosion|§ Tomsk-7 explosion]]).