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Plant will save Kiev $200m a year in payments to Russia Dry runs have already begun to test the facility, which is in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Courtesy Energoatom. Ukraine’s state nuclear energy company Energoatom is poised to begin moving spent fuel from the nation’s operating reactors to its newly built consolidated interim storage (CIS) facility starting in 2022.

The facility, known in Ukraine as the centralised spent nuclear fuel storage facility (CSFSF), is inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone in the north of the country and will be used to store spent fuel from the Rovno, Khmelnitski and South Ukraine nuclear stations.

In May 2020, Energoatom said construction and installation work had been delayed because of the Covid-19 pandemic and delays restoring railway access. However, dry runs have already begun to test the facility.

The main contractor for the facility is US-based Holtec International, which also built the separate ISF-2 facility at Chernobyl for the processing of more than 21,000 fuel assemblies from Chernobyl-1, -2 and -3.

Date: Friday, 19 November 2021
Original article: nucnet.org/news/energoatom-to-begin-moving-spent-fuel-to-new-chernobyl-facility-in-2022-11-4-2021

A high-ranking Egyptian delegation headed by the Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy of Egypt, Mohammed Shaker, paid a working visit to one of the largest machine-building enterprises in Russia, JSC Tyazhmash on 30 July. The delegation also included: the Chairman of the Egyptian Nuclear Power Plants Authority (NPPA) Amged El-Wakil; NPPA Vice President Mohammed Ramadan; the Chairman of the Nuclear and Radiation Control Department of Egypt, Sami Atalla; Rosatom’s First Deputy General Director for Nuclear Energy and President of JSC ASE, Alexander Lokshin; the Deputy Head of the Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision, Alexey Ferapontov, Samara Region Governor Dmitry Azarov; the General Director of Tyazhmash JSC Andrey Trifonov, as well as project teams of the Rosatom engineering division and NPPA.

Date: Wednesday, 04 August 2021
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newshigh-ranking-egyptian-nuclear-delegation-visits-russia-dispelling-rumours-of-tension-8963506

According to local press reports, the delay of the El-Dabaa NPP to 2030 instead of 2028 reported earlier in July is due to underlying tension in relations with Russia. Egyptian Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority spokesman Karim al-Adham confirmed the delay statements to the Egyptian economic newspaper Enterprise on 14 July, citing the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic as the reason.

Date: Friday, 30 July 2021
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsel-dabaa-nuclear-project-reported-delayed-by-political-tensions-8946026

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