International Conference on the Management of Spent Fuel from Nuclear Power Reactors 2019: Learning from the Past, Enabling the Future

Preparation for the future spent fuel transportation and disposal at Loviisa NPP

28 Jun 2019, 10:10

20m

Oral Track 3: Transportation in the back-end Session 3.1

Speaker

Dr Jari Tuunanen (Fortum Power and Heat oy)

Description

Spent fuel disposal in Finland is in the phase where Posiva is preparing for construction of the encapsulation plant and spent fuel disposal tunnels, and later submitting the operating license application. As part of the preparations, Posiva is planning the future operating phase of the spent fuel encapsulation and final disposal facility. The original operating plan has been to dispose of fuel from both Olkiluoto and Loviisa NPPs in parallel starting around 2024. Another option is to start disposing fuel from Olkiluto NPP first, and continue with Loviisa NPP fuel later. Whatever production option is selected it requires actions and preparations at Loviisa NPP. This paper presents some of these actions.

Peer reviewing

Paper

Accepted on 27 May 2019 by Amparo Gonzalez-Espartero

Paper files:

• IAEA-spentfuel-Conference_Tuunanen_11-4-2019.docx