Russia has developed a program for management of used nuclear fuel covering the period “2016-2018 and up to 2020” to replace the previous one, which has expired. The Russian Research Institute for Nuclear Power Plant Operation (VNIIAES) – a subsidiary of Russian state nuclear enterprise Rosatom – said yesterday the program reflects Rosatom’s policy to reprocess used fuel from the country’s reactors in an environmentally responsible way that enables the “sound treatment of fission products and the return to the nuclear fuel cycle of nuclear materials recovered”. The concept provides for transportation of used nuclear fuel from the sites of nuclear power plants to Mayak Production Association in Ozersk for reprocessing or to a centralized repository at Mining and Chemical Combine (MCC) at Zheleznogorsk for storage and subsequent reprocessing.
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