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As policymakers grapple with the twin challenges of climate change and a post-COVID economic recovery, the benefits of nuclear power are clearer than ever, but the industry still has some way to go in addressing perceptions of its alleged drawbacks with cost, safety and radioactive waste. This was the overriding message of the three panellists in a webinar held last week by Utilities Middle East in partnership with Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 01 January 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/The-barrier-to-nuclear-is-perception,-says-panel
The unloading of used nuclear fuel from Russian storage facilities at the former onshore technical base of the Navy in in Andreeva Bay near Murmansk is planned to be fully completed by 2027, state nuclear corporation Rosatom said on 6 August. The Andreeva Bay storage facility established in the 1960s, is the largest such facility in Northwest Russia and one of the biggest in the world. To date more than 30% of the fuel has been removed from Andreeva Bay and sent for processing. Nuclear waste management company RosRAO (part of Rosatom) began unloading spent nuclear fuel from the Andreeva Bay base in May 2017.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 12 August 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsused-fuel-removal-from-russias-andreeva-bay-to-be-completed-by-2027-8073673
Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom said on 22 July that it was completing unloading used nuclear fuel from floating base Lepse.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Saturday, 25 July 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfuel-removal-from-russias-lepse-nearing-completion-8042410
Used fuel assemblies, which had been lying for decades at the bottom of Building 5, an ageing used fuel store at Russia’s Andreeva Bay in the Arctic northwest, have been removed and secured. The complex operation that was the first of its kind, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) announced on 26 November.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 29 November 2019
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmore-progress-in-andreeva-bay-clean-up-7531300
The first batch of used fuel assemblies from Russia’s Lepse floating technical base (PTB) was delivered to the Atomflot base in Murmansk, Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom announced in late September.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 02 October 2019
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstransfer-of-damaged-used-fuel-begins-from-russias-lepse-7430982
The first train carrying used nuclear submarine fuel from Russia’s Andreeva Bay arrived to the Mayak radiochemical plant in Ozersk from the Murmansk region on 14 August. The first rail car unloaded in shop 5 the next day, and the first used assemblies were removed from the transport and packaging container. The fuel shipment left the storage facility in Andreeva Bay on 27 June. The used fuel, removed from 100 reactors from more than 50 nuclear submarines, has been stored at Andreeva Bay for 35 years in dry storage units, some of which were damaged and leaking. The base was closed in 1992.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 17 August 2017
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfirst-used-fuel-arrives-at-mayak-from-russias-andreeva-bay-5901899
The first shipment of used nuclear fuel left the former naval base in Andreeva Bay in northwestern Russia on 27 June. Under an international initiative financed by the Nuclear Window of the Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership (NDEP) more than 22,000 used fuel assemblies from nuclear submarines, currently stored at Andreeva Bay, will be retrieved, packaged and removed from the site. The process is being carried out by SevRAO, part of Russian state nuclear energy corporation, Rosatom.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 28 June 2017
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsused-fuel-leaves-russias-andreeva-bay-for-mayak-5854070
The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for disposal of used nuclear fuel from Finland's Hanhikivi-1 NPP being built by Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom at Pyhäjokil has been submitted to the Finnish Ministry of Employment and the Economy (MEE) by operator Fennovoima Oy. This followed signing of a service agreement between Fennovoima Oy and Posiva Solutions Ltd, a marketing division of Posiva Oy, which will enable Fennovoima to benefit from Posiva Oy's expertise in used fuel management.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Monday, 27 June 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsprogress-on-used-fuel-disposal-in-finland-4933909
In a written statement to the Finnish Ministry of Employment and the Economy on 3 May, the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) said there is no reason why Finnish company Fennovoima should not be granted a licence for construction of the Hanhikivi-1 NPP at Pyhäjoki in northwest Finland. Hanhikivi-1 will be a 1,200MWe VVER pressurised water reactor of the Russian AES-2006 type. It is scheduled to enter commercial operation in 2024.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 04 May 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsswedish-approval-for-finlands-hanhikivi-npp-4883439