*[Enwl-eng] Decommissioning of NPPs and problems of Carbon-14. Press-conference in St. Petersburg

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Dear colleagues,

March 17, Tuesday at 12:00 we'll organise a press-conference. It will be in Saint Petersburg.

REGIONAL PRESS INSTITUTE, 

Phone: +7 (812) 272 4672,  73 Ligovsky, room 314, St. Petersburg 

We will present at a press conference a report in Russian and English languages 

CURRENT CHALLENGES AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS FOR RADIOACTIVE GRAPHITE HANDLING IN DECOMMISSIONING OF RBMK-TYPE REACTORS

The world faces a new stage in operation of nuclear power reactors. Its specifics are related to a growing number of decommissioned power units that either reached the end of their operating lifecycle or their operation is becoming economically not viable, environmentally unsafe or politically unacceptable.

Radioactive isotope of carbon ¹⁴C that was formed during the operation of uranium-graphite reactors (UGR) requires a particularly careful approach in selecting technology for long-term isolation from nature and wildlife. To date, the total radioactivity of accumulated reactor graphite in the world is almost 3 times greater than that generated by nuclear and thermonuclear explosions from 1945 to 1960.

Thus, the safe long-term isolation of reactor graphite accumulated in the world is a global challenge.

The participants of the press-conference

Oleg Bodrov – physicist, ecologist, General Director of LLC Decommission, Chairperson of the interregional public environmental movement "Public Council of the South Coast of the Gulf of Finland" of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region .   

  Vladimir Kuznetsov – physicist, Chairperson of the Association of Veterans of the Ignalina NPP, deputy head of the Public Council on the Environment and Energy under the Mayor of the town of Visaginas, Lithuania, former Deputy Chis of Reactor Shops of Leningrad, Ignalina and Chernobyl NPPs. 

Oleg Muratov – physicist, candidate of technical sciences, head of the Radiation Technology Department of LLC TVELL (St. Petersburg), member of the of the Public Council of Rosatom State Corporation, leading expert-coordinator of the Higher Expert Commission of the Public Council, Executive Secretary of the North-West Branch of the Nuclear Society of Russia, member of the Central Board of this organization. 

Andrei Talevlin – PhD in Law, Associate Professor at Chelyabinsk State University, Chairperson of the regional public movement “For Nature",  and expert of Decom-Atom - international network of public organizations to promote safe decommissioning of nuclear power plants and safe handling of radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel.

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Oleg Bodrov  Chairman of the Public Council of the South Coast of the Gulf of Finland, 

General Director of LLC Decommission

P.O.Box 68/7 Sosnovy Bor 188544 Leningrad Oblast, Russia

phone/fax +7 81369 72991, mob. +7 921 74 52 631

 

 

From: Олег Бодров

Sent: Monday, March 09, 2020 6:16 PM

Subject: Decommissioning of NPPs and problems of Carbon-14. Press-conference in St. Petersburg

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