Jacobs - The Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant was once capable of supplying 88% of
For the past 19 years, Jacobs has formed part of the project management unit (PMU) for a set of newly built, bespoke facilities that are needed to enable this first-of-a-kind decommissioning challenge.
As part of our support for the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP), the PMU has helped to deliver the new Interim Spent Fuel Storage Facility (ISFSF), a Solid Waste Management and Storage Facility (SWMSF), a modified Fuel Inspection Hot Cell (FIHC), and the
The delivery of these facilities is led by the
Signing the ribbon at the of?cial opening of the new storage facility in 2016.
Up to the end of 2020, about 15,000 spent fuel assemblies from Ignalina's two Soviet-designed RBMK reactors had been safely removed from storage pools, loaded into casks and transported into the new ISFSF. The final cask is scheduled to enter the facility in the second half of 2022.
The SWMSF is processing long-lived and short-lived radioactive wastes as well as operational and secondary wastes from the power plant's storage bunkers.
Modifications to the
The project is progressing on schedule with all the basic engineering design for the new equipment having been completed, submitted to INPP and approved. Manufacturing of
Detailed design and manufacturing for the
Ignalina NPP Director General Andrius Kamienas hailed the 'dedication and professionalism' of the Jacobs PMU team as an important contributor to the successful delivery of the new facilities.
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