Decommissioning strategy for liquid low-level radioactive waste surface storage water reservoir

Publication date: Available online 22 November 2016
Source:Journal of Environmental Radioactivity
Author(s): S.S. Utkin, I.I. Linge
The Techa Cascade of water reservoirs (TCR) is one of the most environmentally challenging facilities resulted from FSUE "PA "Mayak" operations. Its reservoirs hold over 360 mln m³ of liquid radioactive waste with a total activity of some 5 × 10¹⁵ Bq.A set of actions implemented under a special State program involving the development of a strategic plan aimed at complete elimination of TCR challenges (Strategic Master-Plan for the Techa Cascade of water reservoirs) resulted in considerable reduction of potential hazards associated with this facility.The paper summarizes the key elements of this master-plan: defining TCR final state, feasibility study of the main strategies aimed at its attainment, evaluation of relevant long-term decommissioning strategy, development of computational tools enabling the long-term forecast of TCR behavior depending on various engineering solutions and different weather conditions.



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