Beneficiary Organizations Details
Ministry of Economy, Labour and Social Policy ( main funding authority for the Institute of Atomic Energy).
http://www.mgip.gov.pl
Project Aims

The project aimed at improving the radiological situation by sealing the reactor primary cooling circuits from contacting with water of the secondary side flowing in an open cooling circuit having a direct contact with ambient atmosphere. Specifically the following tasks have to be addressed:

• Construction of the new tube bundles inside the available vessels of the reactor fuel channels and pool cooling circuits.
• Change of the ion-exchange beds and infrastructure at ion-exchange filtration system of the secondary cooling circuit (the fast and anthracite filters).

Project Results

• Full separation of the reactor primary circuit from the secondary cooling circuit for a long term period.
• Safety barrier prohibiting the radiation isotope contained in the primary coolant to be penetrated in to the secondary cooling circuit water and further to contaminate the environment by means of their release into the atmosphere.
• The increased protection level of the MARIA research will enable the IAE to meet the standards and requirements of the National Regulatory Body and the recommendation of the International Atomic Energy Agency as well as the obligations imposed by the EU regulation on annual radioactive releases into the ambient atmosphere.

The budget for this project is: 720 000 euro.
Further Project Results
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