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Policy Department D: Budgetary Affairs
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o Commissioning of all liquid RAW treatment facilities by the end of 2015. The facilities are supplied from
different contractors, and some of the projects have a significant delay:
Facility for treatment of low-level liquid waste – Supplier: Atomstroyexport. The project was
finished in 2012 with 4 years of delay,
Facility for retrieval and treatment of spent ion-exchange resins - Supplier: ENSA (Italy). After
interruption the work on the project is restarted in June 2012. It is expected to be finished in 2017
against in October 2007 as it was initially scheduled;
Plasma melting facility – Supplier: Consortium Iberdrolla Ingeneria and Belgoprocess. It is expected
to be finished in November 2015 against in July 2013 as it was initially scheduled;
Facility for retrieval and treatment of the solid phase of evaporator concentrate tanks – Supplier:
ONET Technologies Nuclear International. It is expected to be finished in January 2016 against in
September 2012 as it was initially scheduled.
Commissioning of the National disposal facility for LILW – 2015.
The significant delays in the implementation of some of the projects for supply of RAW treatment facilities, as
well as in the implementation of projects of the decommissioning support programme for Units 1-4 of Kozloduy
NPP, may compromise the accepted and declared to EC terms for acceleration of the decommissioning process
of Units 1-2. To overcome the problems working meetings are organized on regular basis between the Supplier,
the Client and the Consultant of D-R PMU.
In the time planning the main limitation is the initial preparatory period of 5 years for release of the Units from
spent fuel. The initially foreseen period was of 8 years, 3 years of them for storage of the assemblies in the atreactor
ponds and 5 years for preparatory decommissioning activities. The Consortium 'BELGATOM - EWN –
ENERGOPROEKT' reduced the period from 8 to 5 years. Afterwards it was realized that the period is
unrealistically shortened. The main delay in the spent fuel removal from at-reactor ponds was due to the delay
in Project 1 – Dry Spent Fuel Storage Facility (DSFSF). The project was completed with some years of delay, due
to different technical difficulties, encountered during foundation of the loess cushion under the facility and
during the supply of storage casks for the spent fuel assemblies from Units 1-4 of the NPP. The problems were
resolved in October 2010. Licenses for Units 1 and 2 as Radioactive waste management facilities were issued to
SERAW. The preparatory decommissioning activities and the conditions for their implementation are part of the
scope of the license and are defined by the Bulgarian regulatory body – the NRA.
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