Radiation safety of dismantling when nuclear power plant decommissioning

Decommissioning NPPs and nuclear facilities is inevitable finishing stage of their life cycle. The procedure of disassembling reactor and reactor equipment and management of radioactive wastes formed is the most dangerous one from the viewpoint of radiation impact on the personnel, population and environmental medium. Various versions of decommissioning, disassembling strategy, applied in foreign countries, as well as classification, criteria and requirements to various methods of destruction and cutting, used by disassembling nuclear facilities, are considered. Concrete examples of nuclear facilities disassembling are discussed. 24 refs.; 6 figs.; 11 tabs