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To: bagman

If your nuclear plant in in Nikolaev oblast', then it's probably the Yuzhno-Ukrainskaya (South Ukrainian) AEhS in the village of Yuzhnoukrainsk, about 60 miles from Nikolaev.

You probably know all this stuff, already:

South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant
Yuzhnoukrainsk, Ukraine

SITE DESCRIPTION

The South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant (SUNPP) is located approximately 400 kilometers south of Kiev, Ukraine. The plant has three operating VVER- 1000 nuclear reactors. Units 1 and 2 are Model 302, and Unit 3 is a Model 320. A fourth unit was canceled due to lack of funding. Construction was started in the early 1970s. Unit 1 was brought on-line in 1982, Unit 2 on-line in 1986, and Unit 3 in 1989. These three units generate about 25 percent of the nuclear generated power for Ukraine.

The reactors are fueled with low-enriched uranium fuel. Spent fuel is stored in fuel storage pools in the reactor buildings for many years until they are sufficiently cool for removal for shipment to a fuel reprocessing plant or to an alternate fuel storage area. Currently, a spent fuel storage building is being constructed on-site for dry storage in concrete casks.

Figure 1. SUNPP site layout

21 posted on 04/28/2005 9:25:31 PM PDT by struwwelpeter
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To: struwwelpeter

That place looks familiar!


22 posted on 05/03/2005 9:37:00 AM PDT by bagman (Have neutron, will travel)
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