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Conference Article: The LA-0 project for complex testing of nuclear incineration systems

Miloslav Hron and Vladimir Lelek

Abstract

The current proposals for high-active long-lived waste from spent nuclear fuel disposal call forth an increasing mistrust of society towards nuclear power at all. These problems are highly topical even in the Czech Republic. In 1993, the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic were constituted instead of the former Czechoslovakia. The first of two operated Czechoslovakian NPPs, the NPP Bohunice together with the only one in that time intermediate storage of spent fuel, remains on the territory of Slovakia and the NPP Dukovany as well as the NPP Temelin are located in the Czech Republic. As a consequence of this political step, the decision was accepted to build up an intermediate storage in the Czech Republic (to put it into operation in 2005) and to store all Dukovany’s fuel in transport casks on the Dukovany’s site territory up to the 600 tons of heavy metal and then move it into the new intermediate storage, which should be designed for the lifetime of about 50-60 years. At about 2030 as a main variant, the final disposal of all spent fuel should be prepared.

There is an opinion of a rational part of the Czech nuclear community that the final disposal of spent fuel is only something like fairy-tale for the public and that a real technical solution should be found definitely.

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key words: Fast Neutron Spectrum Systems, Nuclear Technology
Reference:
Technical Committee Meeting, Madrid, Spain 17-19 September 1997
International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria)
IAEA-TC--903.3, pp:565-588