NM, IRS, RW STORAGE

Storage of the Nuclear Materials, Radioactive Substances, Devices and Installations Containing Radioactive Substances

The CAESC ME RK license “Nuclear Material Management” No.20001352 dated 24.01.2020:

• Nuclear materials storage
  • Nuclear materials
• Nuclear material use
  • Nuclear materials

The CAESC ME RK license “Management of Radioactive Substances, Devices and Installations Containing Radioactive Substances” No.20000475 оf 14.01.2020:

• Storage of radioactive substances, devices and installations containing radioactive substances
  • Radioactive substance storage
    • Sealed radioactive sources
  • Use of radioactive substances, devices and installations containing radioactive substances
    • Radioactive substance use
      • Sealed radioactive sources

The CAESC ME RK license “Implementation of Works Related to the Life Cycle Stages of Nuclear Power Facilities” No. 20002096 dated 04.02.2020:

• Management of works and projects when siting, constructing and decommissioning of nuclear installations
  • Research nuclear (atomic) reactors
• Operation of nuclear facilities, radioactive waste storages
  • Operation of radioactive waste storages
    • Low-level radioactive waste storage facilities
    • Spent nuclear fuel storage facilities
    • High-level radioactive waste storage facilities
    • Medium-level radioactive waste storage facilities
  • Nuclear installation operation
    • Research nuclear (atomic) reactors
    • Installations for manufacture of nuclear fuel and the components

In the Institute of Atomic Energy there are long-term storages for solid radioactive wastes and IRS, which include the following constructions and equipment:

• RW long-term storage for SRW and IRS;
• RW interim storage for IRS protective casings;
• specially equipped vehicles for RW transportation;
• radiation-protection cell for IRS identification and repackaging;
• gantry crane with a lifting capacity of 125 tons for transport and technological operations with RW packages.

Work experience:

• storage of IGR reactor spent nuclear fuel (about 50 years);
• storage of BN-350 reactor spent nuclear fuel (since late 2010);
• IRS receiving for storage from the Shymkentfosfor Plant;
• placement of RW from the former arsenal of the Military Unit 65476 (Tokrau village, Karaganda region) for long-term storage;
• placement of RW from the former Irtysh Chemical and Metallurgical Plant in the Pervomaisky village of the East Kazakhstan region for long-term storage;
• placement of nuclear waste (contaminated soil) from the former Semipalatinsk Test Site for long-term storage;
• from 1955 to the present, more than 52000 tons of IRS and more than 2800 tons of SRW have been accepted for long-term storage.

Contacts:

10, Beybit Atom street, 071100, Kurchatov, East Kazakhstan region, Republic of Kazakhstan, Tel.: (722-51) 3-35-49, Fax: (722-51) 3-31-25, е-mail: iae@nnc.kz;

Head of the Department of Radiation Monitoring of Nuclear, Industrial and Technical Facilities, IAE NNC RK –   Aliya Tursunovna Izbaskhanova, Tel.: (722-51) 3-35-49, Inner: 44-36, e-mail: izbaskhanova@nnc.kz;

Head of Service of Nuclear Materials and Ionizing Radiation Sources Accounting and Control, IAE NNC RK – Rimma Muratovna Mukhamedzhanova, Tel.: (722-51) 3-35-49 inner: 44-76, e-mail: mukhamejanova@nnc.kz;

Head of Radioactive Material Management Service of CRR “Baikal-1”, IAE NNC RK – Alexey Nikolayevich Svetashov, Tel.: (722-51) 3-35-49 inner: 93-35, Fax: (722-51) 3-31-25, е-mail: svetashov@nnc.kz.