Sevmash to manufacture containers for icebreakers spent nuclear fuel

Part of: Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet , Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel , Russian naval radwaste and spent nuclear fuel , Spent nuclear fuel storage in Russia
Sevmash defence enterprise located in Severnaya Dvina (Arkhangelsk region) concluded a contract on the manufacture of a new batch of transport-packaging sets (TUK-120) for spent nuclear fuel. Bellona, 20/02-2006

The representatives of the Sevmash plant, the Murmansk Shipping Company, and UK company Crown Agents signed the contract. The project is sponsored by the United Kingdom.

Containers TUK -120 are intended for the storage of spent fuel of Russian atomic icebreakers based at Atomflot Enterprise in the Murmansk region. All 50 containers are to be placed in a specially equipped coastal storage facility to ensure the safe storage of non-processible nuclear fuel of Russian icebreaker fleet in the next fifty years.
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