Decontamination equipment for ITEPh
Decontamination equipment for ITEPh
Description
Background
Decommissioning of obsolete nuclear facilities near the centre of Moscow is a priority with the goal of achieving a green field status. Therefore the overall objective was fully in-line with the policy of the Russian Federation. The AIDCO nuclear safety strategy comprised cooperation with the Regulator on enhanced capabilities for regulating, licensing and inspecting decommissioning projects including research installations. Supporting the Operator of the ITEP research reactor under decommissioning duly complemented this strategy. Moreover, the ITEP reactor was topic for a 1996 US-Russian intervention to safeguard the high enriched uranium fuel present at that time.
The Supply project had a close relation with Tacis project RF/TS/50 (a part of the larger project R3.01/05) which supported the regulatory review of the licensing documents on decommissioning the ITEP heavy water reactor. The review was to raise the scope and quality of among others the Safety Analysis Report to international accepted practices. The equipment supply provided the technological basis for matching the high targets of RF/TS/50 project.
The State Scientific Center of Russian Federation "Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics" (ITEP) possessed a Heavy Water Reactor (HWR) which was centrally located in Moscow, about eight kilometers south of the City center. This reactor, of 2.5 MW power, was shut down in 1987 after 37 years of operation by an Order of the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy (Minatom). The HWR decommissioning started in 1987 and the spent fuel from the reactor core and from the spent fuel storage pond was removed and transported to the reprocessing plant "Mayak". In 1997, the Russian nuclear regulatory body, RF Gosatomnadzor, approved the Decommissioning Programme developed by the ITEP experts. In 1999, a licence for the decommissioning of the HWR reactor was granted to ITEP by RF Gosatomnadzor and the practical decommissioning activities were started. By the middle of 2002 it was estimated that about 80% of the decommissioning work was finished.
Objective
This TACIS project intended to support the implementation of remaining decommissioning tasks on the Heavy Water Reactor at ITEP. The project should supply equipment to support the first of three planned remaining stages of the decommissioning. The scope of supply was based upon the report “Working program 2006-2011 on the Tacis project R4.02/05 “Technical support of decommissioning of the heavy-water research reactor HWR ITEP" prepared by ITEP, considering follow up improvements and corrections.
Results
The project provided the following major equipment and miscellaneous items:
o 1 Electric compressor
o 8 Drill hammers, various types e.g. jack hammer
o 7 Leak tight pumps of various types
o 1 High pressure decontamination jet facility
o 1 Decontamination surface coating spray equipment
o 4 Blocks and tackles (manual & electric)
o 3 Pneumatic decontamination heads
o 2 Sets of equipment for plasma arc cutting
o 2 DC welding devices
o 2 Angle grinders
o 1 Tiger reciprocating saw
o 2 Industrial vacuum cleaners (one for dry, one for wet recovery)
o 1 Machine for cutting cast iron and one for carbon steel
o Steel supplies (bars, profile, rods, plate, sheets)
o Washable individual protective clothing (large quantities)
o Decontamination solutions and film material
o Digital camera and video camera.
General Information
Title:
Decontamination equipment for ITEPh
Programme:
TACIS
Amount:
€ 540.934,00
Budget year:
2005
Countries:
Russia
Nature:
Supply
Types of activities:
Decommissioning
Sector:
WDS - Waste, Decommissioning and Safeguards
Duration (months):
36
Contracting authority:
ITEP
Partner (Beneficiary):
State Scientific Center of Russian Federation "Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics"
Contractors:
DELTA SERVICES INDUSTRIELS SPRL
Status:
Closed
CRIS number:
145241
Project reference:
R4.02/05 B
Decision number:
TACIS/2005/017-101
Method of procurement:
Open Call for Tender
Signature date:
03/07/2008
Effective contract date:
04/07/2008
Contract end date:
04/07/2011
Closure date:
27/02/2014