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Testing of new technologies at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant will last until the end of 2021
As part of the agreement, ChNPP representatives using KAERI technologies will perform foam cleaning of concrete fragments and steel structures from radioactive contamination.
The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute KAERI will provide technologies for the decontamination of radioactive fragments of concrete and metal at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. This was announced on Tuesday, October 27, by the ChNPP Exclusion Zone State Management Agency.
As part of the agreement, ChNPP representatives using KAERI technologies will perform foam cleaning of concrete fragments and steel structures from radioactive contamination.
The tests will last until the end of 2021. In the future, the State Agency will receive additional decontamination technology with the right to use it in the ChNPP.
“KAERI has technical developments aimed at decontamination of radioactively contaminated surfaces, but it cannot test these technologies on real, non-artificially contaminated surfaces, as there are no such contaminations in Korea today,” explained Alexander, deputy director of the State Agency for Radioactive Waste Management. Skomorokhov.
At the same time, the ChNPP management, during decommissioning, is constantly looking for funds and technologies that allow, on the one hand, to qualitatively decontaminate the materials, and on the other, to significantly reduce the amount of radioactive waste generated in this process.
“Therefore, the ChNPP site is a kind of laboratory testing ground to test the technology proposed by the KAERI specialists,” summarized Skomorokhov.
As previously reported, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant began transporting spent nuclear fuel from the ISF-1 “wet” type storage facility to the ISF-2 “dry” type storage facility.
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