International Conference on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management, Decommissioning, Environmental Protection and Remediation: Ensuring Safety and Enabling Sustainability

Experience of decommissioning RADON-type legacy storages of solid radioactive waste

Not scheduled

20m

M-Building (IAEA Headquarters, Vienna)

POSTER Track 5 - Practical experiences in integrating safety and sustainable development

Speaker

Yulia Gorlova (TVEL)

Description

INTRODUCTION
Decommissioning of nuclear and radiation hazardous facilities refers not only to nuclear power plants, but also to a wide range of specific facilities including storages of radioactive waste.
The paper describes Rosatom's experience in decommissioning of RADON-type legacy storages of solid radioactive waste.
1. COMPOSITION OF RADON-TYPE STORAGE
Section 1 describes typical composition of RADON-type storage on the example of the facility located in Murmansk.

1. TYPICAL COMPOSITION OF RADON-TYPE STORAGE
   Section 2 includes major causes leading to RADON-type storages decommissioning. This includes loss of leak-tightness due to natural degradation of engineering barriers and modification of legislation on radioactive waste management that took place in 2011.

2. EXPERIENCE OF RADON-TYPE STORAGES DECOMMISSIONING
   Section 3 describes the experience of RADON-type storages decommissioning.

3. CASES
   Section 4 covers some cases of RADON-type storages decommissioning. These include Murmansk facility and Leningrad facility (a branch of Federal Ecological Operator). Cases include information on the facilities and decommissioning scope that was carried out.
   CONCLUSION
   Accumulated experience of RADON-type legacy storages decommissioning may serve for consideration during planning of further projects of similar nature, thus potentially saving financial resources and leading to shorter duration of such projects.

Presentation materials

Abstract_Decommissioning of RADON type storages_Rosatom_TVEL_Gorlova.docx

GORLOVA_IAEASnS2023 157_POS.PDF