Rostechnadzor delegation visited FSUE “Mining and Chemical Combine” (the Krasnoyarsk Territory)

09.07.2013 The delegation of the Federal Environmental, Industrial and Nuclear Supervision Service of Russia (Rostechnadzor) headed by Valeriy Bezzubtsev, Deputy Chairman, in the period from July 3 to 5, 2013 made a working visit to FSUE “Mining and Chemical Combine” (Zheleznogorsk, the Krasnoyarsk Territory). Evgeniy Kudryavtsev, Head of Department for Safety Regulation of Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities, Nuclear Power Installations of Ships and Radiation Hazardous Facilities, Sergey Chernov, Acting Head of the Rostechnadzor Interregional Territorial Department for Supervision over Nuclear and Radiation Safety of Siberia and Far East and Alexander Khamaza, Director of SEC NRS took part in the business visit.

In frames of the visit, a meeting was held to discuss the issues of licensing of new productions built on the site of the enterprise, and to arrangement of interaction between FSUE “MCC” and FSUE “National Operator for Radioactive Waste Management” in view of handover to the latter of the Deep Disposal Facility for Liquid Radioactive Wastes and performance of the relevant licensing procedures. The delegation was familiarized with the productions in operations and decommissioning, including the modernized spent nuclear fuel “wet” storage facility for VVER-1000 reactors and spent nuclear fuel “dry” storage facility for RBMK reactors, the license for industrial operation of the first stage of which was issued by Rostechnadzor at the end of June 2013, and also learnt about the progress of construction of the second stage of the storage. In the undermountain part of the enterprise the shutdown industrial reactor ADE-2 and underground TPP, as well as a number of other productions and supporting facilities were demonstrated to the delegation.

The delegation during its visit to all facilities was accompanied by Petr Gavrilov, Director General of FSUE “MCC”. A brief meeting of the delegation with journalists of regional media was held in the followup of the visit.

Source: http://www.gosnadzor.ru/news/1553/.