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Ukraine: Khmelnytskyy Spent Fuel and Radioactive Waste Developments

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6/4/96: TRANSPORT OF SPENT FUEL ASSEMBLIES FROM KHMELNYTSKY IS TO BEGIN SOON
The transport of 100 spent fuel assemblies from Khmelnytsky unit 1 by rail to Russia for temporary storage and reprocessing is to begin soon. This reportedly will resolve on-site storage problems at Khmelnytsky Unit 1 for the next two years.
[Uranium Institute News Briefing, 6/4/96.]

6/3/96: DRY STORAGE IS SLATED TO START IN 1998
Ukraine will begin dry storage of spent fuel in 1998.
[Peter Coryn, "Ukraine Government Passes Waste Plan, But Hitch Delays Implementation," NuclearFuel, 6/3/96.]
 
11/14/95: FUEL ASSEMBLIES SHIPPED TO RUSSIA
A second shipment of 72 fuel assemblies from the Khmelnytsky NPP was transported to Russia. In return, the plant received a delivery of new fuel from Russia. The first shipment consisted of 144 spent fuel assemblies from the Zaporizhzhya and South Ukraine NPPs.
["More Ukrainian Spent N-Fuel Heading To Russia," NucNet, 11/13/95.]

Page last updated 1 May 1997
This file is no longer being updated.  For information on developments in the nuclear power industry, please see the Ukraine: Spent Fuel and Radioactive Waste Developments section

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