The State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine (SNRC) has
approved integrated systems testing of the interim used fuel storage
facility (ISF2) at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in
Ukraine. The approval means the facility has officially entered the
post-construction phase, the USA's Holtec International said yesterday.
ISF2, which is supported by the Nuclear Safety Account managed by the
London-headquartered European Bank for Reconstruction and Development,
will provide for the processing and storage of the used nuclear fuel
from units 1, 2 and 3, which is required for the decommissioning of the
Chernobyl plant.
Having received SNRC approval on 1 August, Holtec said the cold
testing phase will move to hot pre-commissioning testing in December,
with fuel loading beginning in March.
"A complex dry storage program begun in 1997 by EBRD that Holtec took
over after Areva's withdrawal in 2007 features the world's largest fuel
dismemberment facility including a hot cell for RBMK fuel," Holtec
said.
It added: "Back-fitting the state-of-the-art systems in the existing
Processing Building, with its substantially obsolesced and long disused
equipment and machinery ravaged by over a decade of Ukraine's fierce
winters, turned out to be far more complex than was initially
envisioned. The plethora of daunting technical and regulatory challenges
that had to be overcome and hundreds of thousands of person-hours
applied to reach this final regulatory approval makes August 1 a
memorable day in the annals of our company."
Data: 04.08.2017
Fonte: www.world-nuclear-news.org
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