2000 年 9 月 28 日和 29 日，在原子能机构主持下，联合国协助格鲁吉亚和阿布哈兹方面同俄罗斯方面在苏呼米开会，讨论放射性材料安全储存问题。专家们认为该研究所的储存设备情况极差，但对于如何长期解决问题，意见不一。核能源部代表得到阿布哈兹方面的支持，认为应在阿布哈兹山区新建核材料储藏设施，并表示愿意为此拨出 600 万美元。
In 28-29 September 2002, the UN facilitated the meeting of the Georgian and Abkhaz side together with their Russian counterparts in Sukhumi under the aegis of the IAEA to discuss the problem of safety storage of the radioactive materials, the experts evaluated the state of the Institute’s storing facility as disastrous but diverged in proposing long-term solution of the problem. The representatives of the Ministry of Atomic Energy backed by the Abkhaz side insisted on building a new nuclear material storage in the mountainous regions of Abkhazia and expresses readiness to allocate 6 million US dollars for this purpose.