Spent fuel management in the former Soviet Union and the Eastern-European countries

Conference · Sun Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1995

OSTI ID:220826

Takats, F ^[1]

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1. International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria)

There is a total of 66 nuclear power plant units in the former Soviet Union and in Eastern-European countries, with a generating capacity of over 44 thousand MW{sub e}. Changes in politics and trading relationships are affecting spent fuel management policies. The paper describes the various approaches to the back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle adopted in these countries and reports data on the amount of spent fuel discharged from the nuclear power reactors with a summary table. Various types of interim storage facilities under consideration are described with a table for the Away From Reactor (AFR) spent fuel storage capacities for the countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern-Europe. The Nuclear Materials and Fuel Cycle Technology Section in the Division of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Management of the IAEA, is responsible for organizing work concerning to the management of spent fuel from power plants and research reactors, providing a forum to exchange and disseminate information on the storage of spent fuel from research and test reactors. An account is given of IAEA programs and recent publications.

• OSTI ID: 220826
• Report Number(s): CONF-950197--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

05 NUCLEAR FUELS
29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
EASTERN EUROPE
FUEL STORAGE POOLS
GOVERNMENT POLICIES
INFORMATION DISSEMINATION
LMFBR TYPE REACTORS
MANAGEMENT
NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL
REPROCESSING
RESEARCH AND TEST REACTORS
SAFETY
SPENT FUEL STORAGE
SPENT FUELS
USSR
WWER TYPE REACTORS