Zaporizhia nuclear storage facility to save billions

Tag : Dry Storage


ENERHODAR (Zaporizhia region), June 13  From the moment of thelaunch of the waste nuclear fuel storage facility at the ZaporizhiaNuclear Power Plant until 2030 (the estimated term for itsexploitation) savings will total UAH13.7 billion, ZaporizhiaDirector General Vyacheslav Tyshcenko, said during a meetingattended by Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Thursday.

He said that in September 2001, Ukraine's first dry waste nuclearfuel storage facility was launched at the NPP. Before, the drywaste was exported to Russia. The first part of the storagefacility can store 100 containers, and at present 60 containers arefilled.