Plans for Spent Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
at Mayak PA up to 2030
IAEA Contact Expert Group Workshop:
Economic Aspects of Spent Fuel Management:
Reprocessing and Direct Disposal
6-7 October 2011, Stockholm, Sweden
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SNF Reprocessing Goals
Conversion of spent nuclear fuel into
safe form
Nuclear material recycling
Product manufacturing for
various industry sectors
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Short History Establishment and Development of RT-1 Facility
1967 - start-up of RT facility construction
1971 – arrival of the fist trainload of SNF
1977 – put in operation of the first two
process lines
1984 – mastering of BN SNF reprocessing
1988 – start-up of the vitrification facility
operation
1988 - put in operation of the third process
line
1996 – start-up of the HLW fractionation
facility operation
5 000 t SNF have been reprocessed within the total facility operation period
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Principal Activities at the RT-1 Facility
Full-scale reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel of
- power reactors WWER-440 and BN-600,
- reactors of transport ship facilities,
- research reactors,
- industrial reactors
Production of recycled uranium of the call-off
quality low enriched uranyl nitrate fusion cake
middle enriched triuranium octaoxide
Radioisotope production:
Cs-137, Kr-85, Am-241, Pu-238, Sr-90, Pm-147
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Electric Vitrification Furnace EP-500
HLW dissolving
throughput 500 l/h
Glass production
throughput 70 kg/h
Melt temperature 1000 °С
Melt discharge Batchwise
Discharged melt amount 200 l
Electric power 800 kW
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Interim wet storage
Milling
Dissolution
Filtration
Extraction
and purification
HLW EP-500
U Pu
Np
NH4 precipitation,
calcination Evaporation
Oxalate precipitation,
calcination
U3O8 UO2(NO3)26H2O
PuO2
Disposal
U
MOX fuel
production
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SNF Reprocessing Flowsheet
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Reprocessed SNF range
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АЭС
«Козлодуй»
Болгария
Power Reactor SNF Origin
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Marine SNF Origin
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RF Research Reactor SNF Origin
Public Corporation «SSC «NIIAR»
FSUE «SSC «FEI»
FSU «RSC «Kurchatov Insitute»
FSUE«NIIYaF at TPU»
FSUE«IRM»
FSUE«MIFI»
FSUE«NIIP»
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Foreign Research Reactor SNF Origin
Totally removed:
Latvia
Bulgaria
Hungary
White Russia
Libya
Serbia
Partly removed:
Uzbekistan
Kazakhstan
Czech Republic
Ukraine
Poland
Romania
Is due:
Vietnam
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Finished Product Customers
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Main Directions of RT-1 Development
Improvement of current production safety: equipment replacement for new and more safe one,
adoption of modern monitoring and control systems,
adoption of new promising processes.
Improvement of environment performances of the production:
upgrading of main SNF reprocessing procedures,
development of radioactive waste management processes : • startup of EP-500/5,
• construction of MLW cement solidification facility
• construction of solid waste handling facility.
Extension of reprocessed SNF range: АМB SNF from Beloyarsakaya NPP,
RBMK reactor SNF,
damaged SNF from nuclear submarines,
research reactor SNF,
spent fuel slugs from SHK and GHK industrial reactors.
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Plutonium Management
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MOX fuel:
processing and supply of
power-grade Pu for MOX fuel
production,
mastering of radiochemical
reprocessing of spent MOX fuel.
Dense (nitride) fuel: arrangement of dense fuel full-
scale production,
provision of fast neutron reactor
facility load with dense fuel (new
generation reactors),
mastering of full-scale
reprocessing of spent dense fuel.
NPP
MOX fuel
production SNF
reprocessing
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Strategy of Radiochemical Production Development
up to 2020
Reprocessing of WWER-440, BN-600,
marine, research.
Work load– 35 %
Reprocessing of WWER-440, BN-600, marine,
research, damaged RBMK and marine, АМB,
EGP, industrial reactors
Work load– 75 %
Uranium products for domestic nuclear fuel
cycle Uranium products for nuclear fuel cycle
Plutonium storage MOX fuel production
Weapon-grade HLW storage Weapon-grade HLW handling
MLW handling
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Target Appearance of RT-1 Reprocessing Facility
Development basis
Pilot site for fast reactor fuel provision
Innovation development
Supporting base of reprocessing
production
Testing of new
SNF reprocessing
procedures
Development of radioactive waste handling technology
BN WWER
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Wide range SNF reprocessing
within the installed capacity
Thanks for your attention
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