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Current Status of Government Regulation of Activities Associated with the Import of Spent Nuclear Fuel into the Russian Federation Return to the Russian Federation of Irradiated Fuel Assemblies from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Current Status of Government Regulation of Activities Associated with the Import of Spent Nuclear Fuel into the Russian Federation Return to the Russian Federation of Irradiated Fuel Assemblies from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Republic of Uzbekistan
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are involved in activities associated with the acceptance of spent nuclear fuel from foreign nuclear power plants -- the Mayak Production Association (spent fuel from water-moderated water-cooled power reactors [VVER-440]
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In 2002 the above-mentioned enterprises received six special shipments of spent fuel from nuclear power plants in Ukraine and one from Bulgaria (specifically, Mayak received one shipment from the Rovno Nuclear Power Plant, while the Mining-Chemical Complex received one shipment each from the Khmelnitsky, Zaporozhye, and Rovno plants, two from the South Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant, and one from the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant in Bulgaria)
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On October 15, 2001, the Russian government issued Order No. 1371-r confirming the Plan for the Preparation of Draft Resolutions of the Government of the Russian Federation Necessary for Implementing the Federal Laws on Special Environmental Programs for Rehabilitating Radiation-Contaminated Areas and on Amending Article 50 of the RSFSR Law on Environmental Protection.
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389 REGULATIONS Regulations concerning activities associated with the import of spent nuclear fuel include regulations on the operation of storage facilities and nuclear plants involved in reprocessing and transporting spent fuel as well as managing the radioactive wastes created as a result of reprocessing operations. In recent years a number of regulatory documents with a direct impact on the security of spent fuel management have been developed and put into effect.
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· License 05-401-0723 dated December 25, 2001, for management of nuclear materials being transported (valid until March 1, 2005) Spent nuclear fuel from foreign nuclear power plants is imported after issuance of Gosatomnadzor permits to the reprocessing enterprise and the client organization, which must apply to the Russian Ministry of Economic Development to obtain a spent fuel import license.
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3. The use of the remaining capacity of the spent fuel repository at the Mining-Chemical Complex to store foreign irradiated fuel rods threatens the possibility of using this capacity to store fuel rods from Russian nuclear power plants, as this could lead to the accumulation of spent fuel rods at the power plants beyond the designed capacity and could force them to halt their operations.
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is currently problematic, as the shipping containers and other equipment at Mayak and the Mining-Chemical Complex are not appropriate for use with foreign transport casks holding fuel rods from these reactors, and the Russian casks are not certified for use abroad and could not be used to ship these sorts of fuel rods. Minatom is holding a competition for the development of a standardized transport cask for irradiated fuel rods from VVER-440, VVER-1000, high-power channel reactors (RBMK-1000)
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