Experience and Status of National Spent Fuel Management Strategies and Programmes of SPAR Participants: Ukaine
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There are 15 operational NPPs in Ukraine (2 WWER-440 and 13 WWER-1000) at four sites, supplying around 60% of Ukraine's electricity. In addition, there are three RBMK-1000 reactors under decommissioning at Chernobyl NPP (excluding Unit 4, which was destroyed by the accident in 1986 and is now in new safe confinement). Ukraine is currently adopting a deferred decision on the fate of spent fuel, with all fuel to be transitioned to dry storage in the long term. Previously, fuel from Rivne, Khmelnitsky and South Ukrainian NPPs has been returned to the Russian Federation for reprocessing. Interim spent fuel storage (ISFS) facilities are located in Zaporizhye NPP and at Chernobyl. A centralised spent fuel storage facility (CSFSF) is under construction in the Chernobyl Exclusion zone and is designed for fuel from both the WWER-440 and WWER-1000 reactors (excluding Zaporizhye). The permit to enable commissioning is expected by the end of 2020. The storage facility was designed by Holtec International for 100 years of operation and will use welded canisters and ventilated concrete overpacks located on open-air platforms. The project capacity of the CSFSF is 458 HI-STORM storage containers, which can contain 16 529 SFAs.
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Publishing Information
- ISBN
- 978-92-0-128221-7
- Imprint Title
- Spent Fuel Performance Assessment and Research. Final Report of a Coordinated Research Project (SPAR-IV)
- Imprint Pagination
- 160 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 17
- ISSN
- 1011-4289
- Report number
- IAEA-TECDOC--1975
INIS
- Country of Publication
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 52119363
- Subject category
- S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CONFINEMENT; DESIGN; DRY STORAGE; ELECTRICITY; FUEL MANAGEMENT; LENINGRAD-1 REACTOR; LICENSES; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; REACTOR COMMISSIONING; REACTOR DECOMMISSIONING; REACTOR OPERATION; REPROCESSING; SPENT FUEL STORAGE; SPENT FUELS; STORAGE FACILITIES; WWER TYPE REACTORS
- Descriptors DEC
- COMMISSIONING; DECOMMISSIONING; ENERGY SOURCES; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; FUELS; GRAPHITE MODERATED REACTORS; LWGR TYPE REACTORS; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; NUCLEAR FUELS; NUCLEAR MATERIALS MANAGEMENT; OPERATION; POWER PLANTS; POWER REACTORS; PWR TYPE REACTORS; REACTOR LIFE CYCLE; REACTOR MATERIALS; REACTORS; SEPARATION PROCESSES; STORAGE; THERMAL POWER PLANTS; THERMAL REACTORS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS