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China's first ship for the transport of used nuclear fuel has been delivered to China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC). The independently produced double-hulled vessel meets the INF-3 (Irradiated Nuclear Fuel class 3) standards set by the International Maritime Organisation.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 11 December 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/China-commissions-first-used-fuel-transport-ship
Russia’s Lepse floating technical base (PTB) in the Murmansk Region will be sealed and transferred for long-term storage to the village of Sayda Guba, where a long-term ground storage facility for reactor compartments is located, Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom has announced.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 19 August 2020
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmore-progress-in-cleaning-up-the-russian-arctic-8089745
Andrey Golin, director general of Russia’s Federal Centre for Nuclear and Radiation Safety (FCNRS) said on 27 April that new facilities in Andreeva Bay, in the Murmansk region, are ready to begin management of used nuclear fuel from nuclear submarines. The basic infrastructure for unloading and subsequent removal of used nuclear fuel from the submarines has been completed. FCNRS was contracted to construct a building to hold in dry storage more than a hundred submarines reactor cores comprising some 22,000 fuel assemblies
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 03 May 2017
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsused-fuel-to-be-removed-from-russias-andreeva-naval-base-5803141
Unloading used nuclear fuel from the Russian floating technical base Lepse will begin in the second half of 2018, and a special protective cover is now being constructed to assist this work and improve safety, Anatoly Zaharchev, head of the Complex Utilisation of Nuclear Submarines project office at state nuclear corporation Rosatom, said on 13 March.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 16 March 2017
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsprogress-removing-used-fuel-from-russian-nuclear-support-ship-lepse-5763939
Work to remove used nuclear fuel from Gremikha, a former Soviet submarine base in the Arctic northwest, is expected to last until 2027, the director of Russian waste managemnent company SevRAO (part of RosRAO) Valery Panteleyev said. On 30 June removal of the fourth decommissioned submarine reactor was removed from the base. He said future work would include the removal of the six other reactors, as well as another one that will be delivered to Gremikha in 2017, and two from the K-27 submarine which sank in Novaya Zemlya in 1982. The plan is to also all solid, liquid, radioactive waste, and, if possible rehabilitate the site and close it. It will be brought to a brown field condition and monitored for several more decades. Panteleyev does not think it can be restored to a green field state. "It will cost a lot of money, and I think, it is unlikely to succeed," he said.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 05 July 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsused-submarine-fuel-to-be-removed-from-russias-arctic-bases-4941596
The Itarus semi-submersible floating platform for transporting special material decommissioned by the Russian Navy has been delivered to the shipyard in Muggiano, in La Spezia, Italy. It was built by Fincantieri for RosRAO, the Russian Federal State Unitary Enterprise for radioactive waste management. The contract to build Itarus was signed by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development, RosRAO and Fincantieri in November 2013 during the Italy-Russia Business Forum, held in Trieste. It followed the 2003 cooperation agreement between the Russian and Italian government for the decommissioning of nuclear submarines and the safe management of radioactive waste and nuclear fuel. That agreement was defined within the framework of the Global Partnership, started in the 2002 G8 summit in Canada.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 11 March 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussia-takes-delivery-of-italian-built-waste-ship-4836952