Technical Meeting on Lessons Learned from the Russian Research Reactor Fuel Return (RRRFR) Programme, Da-Nang City, Viet Nam, 18–20 June 2014

S. Tozser, P. Adelfang, E. Bradley (IAEA), M. Budu (Sosny R&D Company), M. Chiguer (AREVA)

Technical Meeting on Lessons Learned from the Russian Research Reactor Fuel Return (RRRFR) Programme, Da-Nang City, Viet Nam, 18–20 June 2014

International activities in the back-end of the research reactor (RR) fuel cycle have so far been dominated by the programmes of acceptance of highly-enriched uranium (HEU) spent nuclear fuel (SNF) by the country where it was originally enriched. These programmes will soon have achieved their goals and the SNF take-back...

S. Komarov, A. Samsonov, A. Gayazov, D. Derganov, V. Grishin (Sosny R&D Company), U. Salikhbaeyv, N. Maksumov (INP ASU), T. Kirilova (Foton JSC), M. Tyacke (INL)

Technical Meeting on Lessons Learned from the Russian Research Reactor Fuel Return (RRRFR) Programme, 18–20 June 2014, Da-Nang City, Viet Nam

This paper presents actual status of equipment development and safety assessment of preparation of IIN-3M RR liquid SNF of Photon JSC (Tashkent, Uzbekistan) for shipment to the Russian Federation. The following basic technical decisions to handle liquid SNF on the RR site and at FSUE “PA “Mayak” are provided: removal...