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Keshishyan, V.; Petrosyan, A., E-mail: vkeshishyan@minenergy.am, E-mail: artpetrosyan@minenergy.am
Management of Spent Fuel from Nuclear Power Reactors: Learning from the Past, Enabling the Future. Proceedings of an International Conference2020
Management of Spent Fuel from Nuclear Power Reactors: Learning from the Past, Enabling the Future. Proceedings of an International Conference2020
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[en] The one third of power generation in Armenia is from the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant (ANPP). Currently is under operation only second unit of ANPP. The safety of the ANPP is a top priority for the Government of Armenia. Strategy on the Safe Management of Radioactive Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel and the Action Plan on its implementation was approved by Government Decrees in 2017 and 2019. The source of spent fuel is the ANPP. When its service life is expired, during refueling of the reactor core, fuel assembly is discharged from the reactor core and placed in cell of the Unit № 2 storage pool. Refueling is performed once in a year, when the reactor is shut down, depressurized and cooled down. Following discharge of spent fuel assembly from the reactor core it is tested for leak tightness. In case it is tight, a spent fuel assembly is placed in a cell of the storage pool. In case failed assemblies are detected they are placed in tight casings and stored in them. Following the required storage time (3-5 years), spent fuel assemblies are relocated into the spent fuel storage pool of № 1, where they are stored until reaching the parameters required for their 2 transferring to Dry Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage facility (DSNFSF) of NUHOMS-56 type located on Armenian NPP site. Spent fuel assemblies are placed in Dry Shielding Canister (DSC), which is filled with nuclear purity helium of retained overpressure. The DSC shielding and insulation are provided by massive reinforced concrete Horizontal Storage Module (HSM). Radioactive decay heat caused by DSC and HSM is removed using draught ventilation system, which operation is based on a passive natural convection. There are two buildings of the HSM built on the Armenian NPP site. (author)
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International Atomic Energy Agency, Division of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology and Division of Radiation, Transport and Waste Safety, Vienna (Austria); OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, Paris (France); European Commission, Brussels (Belgium); World Nuclear Association, London (United Kingdom); [1 CD-ROM]; ISBN 978-92-0-108620-4;
; May 2020; 7 p; International conference on management of spent fuel from nuclear power reactors: Learning from the past, enabling the future; Vienna (Austria); 24-28 Jun 2019; IAEA-CN--272/189; ISSN 0074-1884;
; Also available on-line: https://www.iaea.org/publications/14680/management-of-spent-fuel-from-nuclear-power-reactors?supplementary=82942; Enquiries should be addressed to IAEA, Marketing and Sales Unit, Publishing Section, E-mail: sales.publications@iaea.org; Web site: http://www.iaea.org/books; 1 ref., 2 figs., 1 tab.


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ASIA, BUILDING MATERIALS, COMPOSITE MATERIALS, CONCRETES, CONVECTION, DECAY, ELEMENTS, ENERGY SOURCES, ENERGY TRANSFER, FLUIDS, FUELS, GASES, HEAT TRANSFER, MANAGEMENT, MASS TRANSFER, MATERIALS, NONMETALS, NUCLEAR FACILITIES, NUCLEAR FUELS, POWER PLANTS, RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS, RARE GASES, REACTOR COMPONENTS, REACTOR MATERIALS, REINFORCED MATERIALS, STORAGE, THERMAL POWER PLANTS, WASTE MANAGEMENT, WASTES
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