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
FSUE MAYAK PA MAYAK PA Facilities
Federal State Unitary Enterprise MAYAK Production Association 2 SNF Reprocessing Goals
Conversion of spent nuclear fuel into safe form
Nuclear material recycling
Product manufacturing for various industry sectors
Federal State Unitary Enterprise MAYAK Production Association 3 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
Federal State Unitary Enterprise MAYAK Production Association 4 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
Federal State Unitary Enterprise MAYAK Production Association 5 Electric Vitrification Furnace EP-500
HLW dissolving 500 l/h throughput Glass production 70 kg/h throughput
Melt temperature 1000 °С
Melt discharge Batchwise
Discharged melt amount 200 l
Electric power 800 kW
Federal State Unitary Enterprise MAYAK Production Association 6 SNF Reprocessing Flowsheet
MOX fuel SNF production U O 3 8 UO2(NO3)26H2O
PuO2
Interim wet storage NH4 precipitation, calcination Evaporation Oxalate precipitation, calcination
Milling U U Pu
Dissolution Extraction and purification Np
Filtration HLW EP-500 Disposal
Federal State Unitary Enterprise MAYAK Production Association 7 Reprocessed SNF range
www.rosatom.ru Federal State Unitary Enterprise MAYAK Production Association 8 Power Reactor SNF Origin
АЭС «Козлодуй» Болгария
www.rosatom.ru Federal State Unitary Enterprise MAYAK Production Association 9 Marine SNF Origin
www.rosatom.ru Federal State Unitary Enterprise MAYAK Production Association 10 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»
www.rosatom.ru Federal State Unitary Enterprise MAYAK Production Association 11 Foreign Research Reactor SNF Origin
Totally removed: Partly removed: Latvia Uzbekistan Bulgaria Kazakhstan Hungary Czech Republic White Russia Ukraine Libya Poland Serbia Romania
Is due: Vietnam
www.rosatom.ru Federal State Unitary Enterprise MAYAK Production Association 12 Finished Product Customers
www.rosatom.ru Federal State Unitary Enterprise MAYAK Production Association 13 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. www.rosatom.ru Federal State Unitary Enterprise MAYAK Production Association 14 Plutonium Management
MOX fuel: processing and supply of power-grade Pu for MOX fuel production, NPP 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 MOX fuel SNF generation reactors), production reprocessing mastering of full-scale reprocessing of spent dense fuel. www.rosatom.ru Federal State Unitary Enterprise MAYAK Production Association 15 Strategy of Radiochemical Production Development up to 2020
Reprocessing of WWER-440, BN-600, marine, Reprocessing of WWER-440, BN-600, research, damaged RBMK and marine, АМB, marine, research. EGP, industrial reactors Work load– 35 % Work load– 75 % Uranium products for domestic nuclear fuel Uranium products for nuclear fuel cycle cycle
Plutonium storage MOX fuel production
Weapon-grade HLW storage Weapon-grade HLW handling
MLW handling
www.rosatom.ru Federal State Unitary Enterprise MAYAK Production Association 16 Target Appearance of RT-1 Reprocessing Facility
Pilot site for fast reactor fuel provision
Testing of new SNF reprocessing Innovation development BN procedures WWER
Supporting base of reprocessing Wide range SNF reprocessing production within the installed capacity
Development of radioactive waste handling technology Development basis
www.rosatom.ru Federal State Unitary Enterprise MAYAK Production Association 17 Thanks for your attention
FSUE «PA «Mayak»