Project title: Р799 Re-equipment of the radiation dosimetric control system in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone and at the Chornobyl NPP

Funding: US Department of State

Objective: Co-financing of the re-equipment of the radiation dosimetric control system in accordance with the technical specifications developed under the EU-funded Project U4.01/18B Phase 1 “Modernization of the dosimetric control system in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone and environmental (radiation) monitoring at the Vektor Complex and Buryakivka Waste Disposal Site - U4.01/18B”.

Expected Outcome: Improving radiation safety in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone by re-equipping the radiation dosimetric control system of the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone and ChNPP.

Project title: Support for the creation of an integrated automatic radiation monitoring system covering the whole territory of Ukraine U4.01.19A/19B

Funding: European Union

Objective: Creation of an integrated automatic radiation monitoring system of the environment which will ensure data exchange in real time, and significantly improve existing monitoring systems in the country. Furthermore, such system would enhance Ukraine’s ability to respond to emergencies, while contributing to improved early warning of radiation hazards for neighbouring countries.  

Expected Outcome: procurement of works and services for the creation of an integrated automated radiation monitoring system covering the whole territory of Ukraine.

Project title: Support to the improvement of radioactive waste management and environmental radiation monitoring within the Chornobyl exclusion zone (U4.01.20/A and U4.01.20/B)

Funding: European Union

Objective:

Improvement of the RW management and radiation monitoring of environment in the Chornobyl exclusion zone through:

  • Improvement of the radioactive waste management system and, as a result, enhancement of the ChEZ radiation safety level by developing a methodology for sampling radioactive materials for further characterisation, sorting, packaging and interim storage of radioactive waste currently stored in the Pidlisnyi RWDS;
  • Improvement of radiation monitoring of the ChEZ environment and development of a relevant strategy and planning for the protection of aquatic resources in the ChEZ by upgrading the well network for proper analysis and modelling of contamination and migration of radionuclides in surface and groundwater.  

Expected Outcome: 

  • Analysis and modeling of migration of radionuclides from different nuclear and radiological facilities in the Chornobyl exclusion zone (ChEZ) in surface and groundwater.
  • Providing recommendations on the deployment of additional water monitoring wells to the existing observation points, which will contribute to the improvement of the overall environmental radiation monitoring programme in the ChEZ.
  • Provision of recommendations on the inclusion of additional monitoring points for surface waters that may be contaminated by radionuclides migrating through groundwater.
  • Development of a fully integrated well design for groundwater monitoring in the ChEZ that is based on the existing system and improves it where necessary.
  • Implementation of an integrated groundwater monitoring system that meets the approved design and can be established within the existing budgetary constraints

Project title: Р792 Radiation monitoring system designed to control vehicles and cargo in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone

Funding: Government of the Kingdom of Norway

Objective: Organization, procurement and delivery of priority equipment, works and services in accordance with the technical specifications developed under the EU-funded Project U4.01/18B Phase 1 “Modernization of the dosimetric control system in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone and environmental (radiation) monitoring at the Vektor Complex and Buryakivka Waste Disposal Site - U4.01/18B”.

Expected Outcome: Provision of priority equipment, works and services for the technical re-equipment of the ChNPP individual dosimetry system using dosimeters for finger and eye monitoring based on optically stimulated luminescence technology

Project title: Equipment for modernization of dosimetric control system in the Chornobyl exclusion zone and environmental (radiation) monitoring at Vektor facility and Buriakivka waste disposal site - U4.01/18B Phase 2

Funding: European Union

Objective: organization, procurement and provision of the necessary infrastructure and equipment in accordance with the designs and technical specifications developed under the EU-funded Project U4.01/18B Phase 1 “Modernization of the dosimetric control system in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone and environmental (radiation) monitoring at the Vektor Complex and Buryakivka Waste Disposal Site - U4.01/18B”.

Expected Outcome: 

  • Creation of a modernized environmental monitoring system at the Buryakivka waste disposal site.
  • Creation of an upgraded dosimetric control system at the SSE ChNPP and in the ChEZ as a whole.

The Interim Spent Nuclear Fuel Dry Storage Facility (ISF-2) – is the facility designed for acceptance, preparation for storage and storage of Spent Fuel Assemblies (SFA) and Additional Absorbers (AA), currently stored at Chornobyl NPP.

The construction began in 2001 and is funded from the Nuclear Safety Account of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

ISF-2 consists of 2 parts:
1. Spent Fuel Processing Facility (SFPF). Its function is preparation for storage and packing of about 21 thousand spent fuel assemblies, transported from from “wet” type ISF-1. The facility is designed to ensure the minimal annual capacity for processing of 2,500 fuel assemblies or absorbers.

2. Spent Fuel Storage Area. The following operations are carried out in this Area:
• transportation of the canisters, filled with spent nuclear fuel from the Spent Fuel Processing Facility to the Storage Area, using the canisters handling and transportation system;
• loading of canisters into horizontal concrete storage modules with the 100-year design life-time
• storage of canisters with nuclear fuel within 100 years.

Storage of spent nuclear fuel will be carried out using the dry modular storage technology.

The general principle of dry model storage is that fuel is stored in sealed baskets filled with inert gas. The baskets themselves are placed in concrete modules. The module design serves as radiation protection, and also prevents the damage of the metal basket.

Dry technology has the following advantages:
1. Possibility to implement construction of the facility in a staged manner and lower initial investment in the construction.
2. Passive system (due to natural air exchange) for removal of residual heat from spent fuel assemblies.
3. Generation of insignificant amount of radioactive waste during operation of the storage facility and almost complete absence of liquid radioactive waste.
4. Operating costs are significantly lower in comparison with the wet storage.

The accepted technology for ISF-2 involves the use of a Double-Walled Canister (DWC). Its design provides long-term storage of fuel due to isolation from the environment. Therefore, there will be no radiation effect on the environment under normal storage in concrete modules. One DWC contains 93 spent fuel assemblies.

On December 14, 2020, active phase of hot testing was completed; 186 spent fuel assemblies were moved to ISF-2.

Read more: ChNPP completes transfer of spent nuclear fuel within “hot tests” at ISF-2

On April 26, 2021, ChNPP obtained Licence for ISF-2 Operation which enabled to start transportation of the fuel in operation mode.

On May 21, the SSE ChNPP obtained an individual permit for Removal of Standard Spent Nuclear Fuel from ISF-1.

On 08 June, spent fuel transportation in operation mode started. As of January 2022: 1,698 spent fuel assemblies have been moved to ISF-2 for long-term storage.

ONGOING PROJECTS

Project No

Project title

Donor

Cost (under the Contract)

Time frame

5412

Support for the creation of an integrated automatic radiation monitoring system covering the whole territory of Ukraine U4.01.19A/19B

European Union

5 200 000 EUR

Start date: 2023-09-14
Completion: 2026-09-14

5467

Support to the improvement of radioactive waste management and environmental radiation monitoring within the Chornobyl exclusion zone (U4.01.20/A and U4.01.20/B)

European Union

5 000 000 EUR

Start date: 2023-08-15
Completion: 2028-08-15

4995

Equipment for modernization of dosimetric control system in the Chornobyl exclusion zone and environmental (radiation) monitoring at Vektor facility and Buriakivka waste disposal site - U4.01/18B Phase 2

European Union

3 773 430 EUR

Start date: 2022-03-15
Completion: 2025-05-15

5473

Р792 Radiation monitoring system designed to control vehicles and cargo in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone

Government of the Kingdom of Norway

2 500 000 EUR

Start date: 2023-01-01
Completion: 2029-12-31

5445

Р799 Re-equipment of the radiation dosimetric control system in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone and at the Chornobyl NPP

US Department of State

2 405 000 EUR

Start date: 2024-01-01
Completion: 2027-12-31

3944-32

Energy Security Project

The US Government through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

700 000 000 USD

Start date: 2018-07-01
Completion: 2025-06-30

2128

Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility (ISF-2)

Nuclear Safety Account

166 185 472 EUR
362 058 522 USD

Beginning: 1996-11-12
Completion: 2024-12-31

 

COMPLETED PROJECTS

Project No

Project title

Cost 
(under the Contract)

Time frame

4766

Support to the Ukrainian institutions in addressing national decommissioning, radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel management, including radio-ecological monitoring

392 767,50 EUR

Beginning: 01.01.2020
Completion: 31.12.2023

4760

Modernization of dosimetric control system in the Exclusion Zone and environmental (radiation) monitoring at Vektor Complex and Buriakivka RAW Disposal Facility.

727 400 EUR

Beginning: 08.01.2021
Completion: 18.07.2022

4089

Specification of the waste forms to allow safe treatment, storage and disposal of radioactive waste held at the Ukrainian nuclear energy facilities.

949 940 EUR

Beginning: 2018-11-03
Completion: 2021-10-10

3896

Technical cooperation project “Support to Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Plant Units and Management of Radioactive Waste within the ChNPP Site and Exclusion Zone"

315 375 EUR

Beginning: 2018-01-01
Completion: 2019-12-31

3647

Improvement of the national system of training in the area of radioactive waste management, decommissioning and rehabilitation of contaminated territories

988 422 EUR

Beginning: 2016-12-20
Completion: 2019-12-20

3224

Creation of Facility for Release of Materials from Regulatory Control at ChNPP

2 552 979 EUR

Beginning: 2015-12-18
Completion: 2019-12-20

 

Completion of the Industrial Heating Plant construction
WBS 03.02.02

30 000 000 USD

Beginning: -
Completion: 2000-04-21

3224

Chornobyl decommissioning Visualization Center creation and development,
NMFA 711

100 000 EUR

Beginning: 2014-01-01
Completion: 2015-12-31

2287

Industrial Complex for Solid Radioactive Waste Management, Lots 1, 2

38 294 000 EUR

Beginning: 2001-03-05
Completion: 2009-02-25

2287

Liquid Radioactive Waste Treatment Plant (LRTP)

37 079 270 EUR
2 491 540 USD

Beginning: 1999-09-16
Completion: 2018-04-13

2153

Technical assistance on the site to Ukrainian organizations in Chornobyl NPP RAW Management facilities creation, monitoring within the Exclusion Zone and NPP equipment repair, 
U4.01/02

5 245 750 EUR

Beginning: 2004-12-01
Completion: 2009-12-31

2188

Complex for metal drums and reinforced concrete containers production for ChNPP Radioactive Waste storage U4.01/04W

5 568 050 EUR

Beginning: 2007-12-28
Completion: 2012-05-23

2306

Additional work in the framework ICSRM project in Chornobyl. Delivery of the ventilation system for buildings 84, U.4.02/07A

400 000 EUR

Beginning: 2009-01-19
Completion: 2010-06-19

3252

Support in the Radioactive Waste characterization and release from regulatory control in Ukraine, U4.01/10B + E

1 469 900 EUR

Beginning: 2014-04-18
Completion: 2017-01-18

2379

Decommissioning Information Support System of Chornobyl NPP, U4.04/06

1 532 530 EUR

Beginning: 2009-05-26
Completion: 2012-02-25

2437

Additional work in the framework ICSRM project in Chornobyl - support providing in licensing activities, as well as "hot" tests controlling, U4.02/07

1 390 000 EUR

Beginning: 2010-01-18
Completion: 2014-11-17

2711

Improvement of the overall strategy for Radioactive Waste Management at operating and shutdown NPPs in Ukraine, U4.01/08-D

1 775 180 EUR

Beginning: 2012-06-30
Completion: 2015-08-20

3318

Creation of an industrial facility for ChNPP Water and liquid Radioactive Waste purification from transuranium elements and organic compounds - Stage I, 
U4.01/11С

1 769 493 EUR

Beginning: 2014-09-01
Completion: 20
17-09-01

3213

Support in Radioactive Waste Management in Ukraine, U4.01/10 СDF

3 865 200 EUR

Beginning: 2014-04-16
Completion: 20
17-04-16

 

 

The project is funded by the European Union.

Project objective: modernization of dosimetric control system in the Exclusion Zone and environmental (radiation) monitoring at Vektor Complex and Buriakivka RAW Disposal Facility.

Project tasks:

  • Development of design and purchase documentation for modernization of the environmental monitoring systems at Vektor and Buriakivka as well as dosimetric control systems at ChNPP and within the Exclusion Zone in general (including the contamination which can be spread by vehicles).
  • Analysis of available systems and their compliance with the safety requirements of Ukraine and best international practices.
  • Development of actions for improvement of the systems.
  • Development of technical specifications on whose basis the primary actions of the system improvement will be taken (these actions include shipment, installation, testing and commissioning).

In terms of upgrading the ChNPP radiation and dosimetric control, the existing system was analysed, the improvement actions for it were developed, and general assessment was completed. Due to both the limited financing of the next project phase and large scope of work, the project for ChNPP was split into two LOTs:

LOT-1 — purchase of equipment for refurbishment of the ChNPP Individual Dosimetric Control Laboratory and purchase of individual dosimeters.
LOT-2 — purchase of auxiliary dosimeters to check eye lens and limbs.

 

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