X International Nuclear Forum “Safety of Nuclear Technologies: Transport of Radioactive Materials – ATOMTRANS-2015”, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, 5-9 October, 2015

B. Kanashov, I. Kuzmin, A. Kostyuchenko, S. Perepelkin, V. Chesanov

X International Nuclear Forum “Safety of Nuclear Technologies: Transport of Radioactive Materials – ATOMTRANS-2015”, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, 5-9 October 2015

INTRODUCTION The scheduled operating life-time of RBMK-1000 reactor units, that is 30 years, has already expired. Comprehensive analysis of the reactor conditions allowed to extend the operating life-time of RBMK units up to 45 years [1]. The additional time to operate each reactor will depend on its peculiarities, however, we can...

A. Ivashchenko, S. Komarov, A. Samsonov, R. Kudoyarov, S. Kashkirov

X International Nuclear Forum “Safety of Nuclear Technologies: Transport of Radioactive Materials – ATOMTRANS-2015”, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, 5-9 October 2015

INTRODUCTION TUK-145/C packaging has become the result of the project on Type C packaging development in Russia. The packaging is designed for the shipment of irradiated fuel of research reactors by any mode of transport, including air shipment, has no restrictions to the amount of the radioactive content and meets all...

S. Tozser, F. Marshall, P. Adelfang, E. Bradley (IAEA), M. Budu (SOSNY Research and Development Company, Russia), M. Chiguer (AREVA, France)

X International Nuclear Forum “Safety of Nuclear Technologies: Transport of Radioactive Materials – ATOMTRANS-2015”, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, 5-9 October 2015

INTRODUCTION IAEA, NEA and OECD continue to support the nuclear community in developing geological repositories. Therefore, a wide range of publications addressing specific safety requirements, international conferences proceedings, joint research reports, guidelines etc. on this subject is available. The new IAEA report presented here [1] addresses the available mature options for...

D. Derganov, A. Ivashchenko, S. Komarov, А. Samsonov (Sosny R&D Company), U. Salikhbaev, N. Maksumov (INP AS RU), T. Kirilova (Foton JSC), M. Tyacke (INL)

X International Nuclear Forum “Safety of Nuclear Technologies: Transport of Radioactive Materials – ATOMTRANS-2015”, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, 5-9 October 2015

INTRODUCTION The Radiation and Technological Complex (RTC) has been operated by Foton JSC since 1975 on a site that is located in Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The complex consists of two gamma irradiation facilities containing Сo-60 sources and an IIN-3M research reactor (RR) using the liquid nuclear...