*[Enwl-eng] Decommissioning of NPPs and problems of Carbon-14. Press-conference in St. Petersburg

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Dear colleagues,
March 17, Tuesday at 12:00 we'll organise a press-conference. It will be in 
Saint Petersburg.
REGIONAL PRESS INSTITUTE,

Phone: +7 (812) 272 4672,  73 Ligovsky, room 314, St. Petersburg

We will present at a press conference a report in Russian and English 
languages
CURRENT CHALLENGES AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS FOR RADIOACTIVE GRAPHITE HANDLING 
IN DECOMMISSIONING OF RBMK-TYPE REACTORS


The world faces a new stage in operation of nuclear power reactors. Its 
specifics are related to a growing number of decommissioned power units that 
either reached the end of their operating lifecycle or their operation is 
becoming economically not viable, environmentally unsafe or politically 
unacceptable.

Radioactive isotope of carbon 14C that was formed during the operation of 
uranium-graphite reactors (UGR) requires a particularly careful approach in 
selecting technology for long-term isolation from nature and wildlife. To 
date, the total radioactivity of accumulated reactor graphite in the world 
is almost 3 times greater than that generated by nuclear and thermonuclear 
explosions from 1945 to 1960.


Thus, the safe long-term isolation of reactor graphite accumulated in the 
world is a global challenge.




The participants of the press-conference
Oleg Bodrov – physicist, ecologist, General Director of LLC Decommission, 
Chairperson of the interregional public environmental movement "Public 
Council of the South Coast of the Gulf of Finland" of St. Petersburg and the 
Leningrad Region .

  Vladimir Kuznetsov – physicist, Chairperson of the Association of Veterans 
of the Ignalina NPP, deputy head of the Public Council on the Environment 
and Energy under the Mayor of the town of Visaginas, Lithuania, former 
Deputy Chis of Reactor Shops of Leningrad, Ignalina and Chernobyl NPPs.

Oleg Muratov – physicist, candidate of technical sciences, head of the 
Radiation Technology Department of LLC TVELL (St. Petersburg), member of the 
of the Public Council of Rosatom State Corporation, leading 
expert-coordinator of the Higher Expert Commission of the Public Council, 
Executive Secretary of the North-West Branch of the Nuclear Society of 
Russia, member of the Central Board of this organization.


Andrei Talevlin – PhD in Law, Associate Professor at Chelyabinsk State 
University, Chairperson of the regional public movement “For Nature",  and 
expert of Decom-Atom - international network of public organizations to 
promote safe decommissioning of nuclear power plants and safe handling of 
radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel.


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Oleg Bodrov  Chairman of the Public Council of the South Coast of the Gulf 
of Finland,


General Director of LLC Decommission
P.O.Box 68/7 Sosnovy Bor 188544 Leningrad Oblast, Russia
phone/fax +7 81369 72991, mob. +7 921 74 52 631


From: Олег Бодров
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2020 6:16 PM
Subject: Decommissioning of NPPs and problems of Carbon-14. Press-conference 
in St. Petersburg

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