Rosatom preps to unload fuel rods from Lepse service vessel
Officials in Russia have set a beginning date for removing hundreds of
spent nuclear fuel assemblies from the bowels of the Lepse nuclear
service ship, one of the country’s most radioactively contaminated Cold
War legacy vessels
Officials in Russia have set a beginning date for removing hundreds of spent nuclear fuel assemblies from the bowels of the Lepse nuclear service ship, one of the country’s most radioactively contaminated Cold War legacy vessels.
Anatoly Zakharchev, who is overseeing the fuel removal process for
state nuclear corporation Rosatom, said in a recent interview that the
complicated process of extracting the spent fuel from the ship would
begin in the last quarter of 2018.
The fuel removal process – including the extraction of several
damaged assemblies – is one of the most technically demanding nuclear
legacy cleanup operations Russia has ever undertaken. When it’s complete
in 2020, it will be a decades-long culmination of technical preparation
and represent the coordination of millions of dollars in international
funding during often trying political circumstances.
Data: 08.11.2017
Fonte: www.bellona.org
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