RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT AT KOZLODUY NUCLEAR POWER PLANT - CURRENT STATUS

In this presentation is described the approach chosen by KNPP for treatment, conditioning and storage of the conditioned LILW. For management of RAW 2001 it was built a separate Facility. It is placed on-site, very close to units 5 and 6 of KNPP and contents two installations – for treatment of Solid RAW and for conditioning of liquid and solid RAW. Close to the RAW treatment-and conditioning facility is built a surface temporary storage for the conditioned RAW. It is already licensed for operation by the Regulatory body. For treatment of the solid RAW is chosen the compaction method. The base technology used for conditioning of the treated solid and liquid RAW is cementation. The package for transportation and storage of conditioned waste is a steel-concrete container, Atype according to and IAEA standards. At the present the facility is in the final phase of commissioning - experimental operation and is under licensing process by the Bulgarian Regulatory Body – the Nuclear Regulatory Agency. The original design and the equipment of the facility allows an implementation of additional schemes for treatment and conditioning of RAW, in respect to minimization of the end product for long term storage end/or disposal. In the presentation is discussed the implementation of such approach and the technical means, adopted and especially developed for this purpose, too.