EU assistance to Ukraine in the last ten years

摘要

Ukraine has an unusually complex situation with respect to managing radioactive waste and spent fuel. It has fifteen VVER units (two VVER-440s at Rovno and the rest VVER-lOOOs) in operation at four sites and a fuel fabrication plant under construction. In addition, there are two research reactors and six interregional specialised enterprises for disposal of institutional radioactive waste. These disposal facilities are currently considered as temporary storage facilities. At the Chernobyl site there are three shutdown RBMK reactors and the damaged unit 4, surrounded by a 30 km exclusion zone, where more than 800 temporary radioactive waste facilities are in place as a result of the accident in 1986. A new Vektor disposal site at Chernobyl was recently licensed to accept the plant's decommissioning waste. The Buryakovka disposal site, which was built shortly after the accident, is being assessed and considered for extension.