Re: out of blindness
marika
National Radio Company of Ukraine, February 28, 2006
<http://www.nrcu.gov.ua/index.php?id=148&listid=25561>
As the EU Commissioner Andris Piebalgs noted, the EU views Ukraine's
membership in the EU Energy community as possible and hailed first
steps of the Ukrainian government in this direction, in particular,
forming a regulatory body in the sphere of energy.
At the same time, he said, Ukraine will be successful in selling its
electric power to the EU, when its electric power networks will be
better tied with the EU networks, while, presently only some part of
the Ukrainian network is linked to the EU system.
According to Ukrainian Fuel and Energy Minister Ivan Plachkov, after
the existent energy production enterprises are improved and new ones
are established, up to 33 percent of the general electric power
production will fall at NPPs, as compared with the current 50 to 52
percent, up to 48 percent at heat stations, 12 percent at water power
stations and up to 7 percent of electric energy will be generated
through renewable fuel sources.
"marika" <marik...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> RIA Novosti, by Olga Bernatskaya, February 25, 2006
>
> <http://en.rian.ru/world/20060225/43765426.html>
>
> Ukraine will not build any storage facilities for spent nuclear fuel,
> not even for its own needs, the speaker of the Ukrainian parliament
> said Saturday.
>
> "There will not be a single nuclear waste site," Volodymyr Lytvyn said.
>
>
> Lytvyn said it was inappropriate to talk about any benefits from
> building such a facility in Ukraine that was still suffering from the
> effects of the Chernobyl nuclear accident.
>
> In December 2005, Ukraine's National Nuclear Power Generating Company
> Energoatom and Holtec International, a U.S. corporation involved in
> some nuclear waste disposal projects in Ukraine, signed a contract for
> the construction of a dry nuclear waste storage facility in Ukraine.
> Energoatom spends $40-80 million a year to send spent nuclear fuel to
> Russia.
>
> Its own waste storage facility would enable the country to save an
> estimated $1 billion on the operation.
>
>
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> From: "marika" <marik...@gmail.com>
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> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 10:14 PM
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>
>> UKRAINE'S GREENS THROW EGGS IN PARLIAMENT PROTESTING AGAINST
>> NUCLEAR WASTE FACILITY PLANS:
>>
>> MosNews, February 23, 2006
>>
>> <http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/02/23/greeneggs.shtml>
>>
>> Three members of Ukraine's Party of Greens have thrown eggs at
>> indicator panel in the hall of the parliament, the Supreme Rada.
>>
>> They were sitting at the guest seats. They threw eggs after the speaker
>> Vladimir Litvin had opened the morning session on Thursday.
>>
>> The 'greens' were holding a poster saying 'It is enough of democracy -
>> nuclear waste are in Ukraine already.'
> "marika" <marik...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE HEATS UP FOR HOLTEC; MARLTON FIRM SNAGS
>> A BIG CONTRACT IN UKRAINE:
>>
>> RedOrbit.com, by Brian Quinlan, February 20, 2006
>>
>> <http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/397785/radioactive_storage_heats_up_for_holtec/index.html?source=r_science>
>>
>> Holtec International rang up a big deal this month when it inked a
>> seven-year, $150 million contract to build a nuclear-waste storage site
>> in Ukraine. The Marlton-based firm specializes in designing and
>> building facilities that allow the operators of atomic energy plants to
>> safely store the radioactive waste they produce.
>>
>> The new project will start immediately and construction will take about
>> three years, says Holtec spokesperson Joy Russell. The company will
>> then stay on for at least four years to store the waste as it is
>> produced and train local people to run the facility, she says.
>>
>> Moving the casks is a big job.
>>
>> "They [the nuclear power plants] have to start slowly and ramp up,"
>> says Frank Bongrazio, Holtec's CFO.
>>
>> Ukraine, the home of the Chernobyl plant that exploded in 1986, has
>> been shipping its nuclear waste to Russia, the closest disposal point
>> to the country. The new Ukrainian facility will be similar to one that
>> Holtec built for the Hope Creek nuclear power station in Salem County.
>> It will save money for Ukraine, which depends on nuclear energy for
>> almost half its electricity, says Russell.
>>
>> "We are able to store more fuel assemblies in the same container [as
>> the other project bidders!," says Kris Singh, president and cofounder
>> of the company. "Our system is more secure, more conducive to public
>> health."
>>
>> Singh says Holtec's superior technology helped it win over two larger
>> firms to snag the Ukrainian contract. "We were competing with
>> Atomstroyexport, a nationally owned company in Russia, and Areva, a
>> nationally owned company in France," he says. "They were two bigger
>> companies and we beat them. They had more people, but we have better
>> technology." Competitors' bids were not disclosed.
>>
>> Holtec's system will store the waste in individual casks that will be
>> placed in bunker-style overpacks, says Steve Agace, program manager for
>> cask operations. Agace says the casks are "honeycomb- style, egg-crate
>> containers" about 16 feet tall and 6 feet in diameter. Agace, an 11
>> -year veteran of nuclear engineering who previously worked for the
>> state's Department of Energy, says the 10- inch-thick lids of the casks
>> are welded shut once the waste is deposited. As in Hope Creek, the
>> walls of the overpack will consist of 27 inches of concrete sandwiched
>> between two 1-inch-thick layers of carbon steel.
>>
>> These spaces will be packed with deadly waste.
>>
>> "The way we put concrete and steel together, it is conducive to
>> radiation shielding," Singh says. "We have analyzed it and the
>> government has analyzed it. The facility could be struck with an
>> airplane" without causing a leak.
>>
>> The Ukrainian contract has "limitless potential" and the $150 million
>> is just a start, Singh says. As Ukraine produces more nuclear waste,
>> Singh says Holtec will keep enlarging the facility- and the money will
>> keep rolling in.
>>
>> Holtec didn't just jump into booking multimillion-dollar deals. The
>> company, founded in 1986 with three employees, was lucky to get
>> contracts worth $1 million and $2 million at first, says Singh.
>>
>> But it has been growing 10% annually, says Bongrazio, and posted
>> revenue of $80 million last year, up from about $72 million in 2004.
>> Holtec has 300 employees spread throughout offices in Marlton,
>> Pittsburgh and Florida.
>>
>> Singh got the idea to start the company after learning there were more
>> than 400 nuclear power plants in the United States. He says there was a
>> clear need for more waste containment facilities. Although the number
>> of nuclear plants in the United States hasn't changed much since then,
>> Singh says the need for safe storage continues.
>>
>> "The fuel from the nuclear reactors had to be stored someplace," he
>> says. "Whatever success we have had has been because we are a
>> technology innovator in tune to the needs of the marketplace."
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