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Conference Article: Investigation of graphite column bricks of Leningrad NPP unit 3 RBMK-1000 reactor after 18 years of operation

P.A. Platonov, O.K. Chugunov, Ya.I. Shtrombakh, V.M. Alekseev, N.S. Lobanov, V.N. Manevski, V.I Karpukhin, I.F. Novobratskaya, I.A. Frolov, V.M. Semochkin, V.A. Denisov, A.V. Borodin, A.A. Kalinnikov, D.E. Furkasov, Yu.V. Garusov, M.A. Pavlov, A.N. Ananiev, A.V. Makushkin, V.N. Rogozin, V.P. Aleksandrov, V.D. Baldin

Abstract

In 1998 the unique experiment on withdrawing of the graphite column from reactor RBMK-1000 of Leningrad NPP Unit 3 has been performed. The graphite column (all 14 graphite bricks) was withdrawn from the cell 12-36 after 18 years of reactor operation for long scale investigation of graphite brick (GB) behaviour and estimation of methods of graphite core dismantling.

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key words: Gas Cooled Reactor, Nuclear Technology
Reference:
IAEA Technical Committee Meeting on "Nuclear Graphite Waste Management", held from 18-20 October 1999 in Manchester, United Kingdom
International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria)
TCM-Manchester99, pp:134-142