Experts suggest in July 2016 to complete the construction of the second phase of the repository for spent nuclear fuel (SNF) at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, it said on Thursday on the Internet representation of the ChNPP.

"the construction of the second stage of" dry "storage of spent nuclear fuel boilers RBMK Chernobyl NPP (ISF-2) is expected to finish in July 2016, said on August 3 in an engineering organization" Holtec Intl.", which is the General contractor of the project ", - notified on the Internet representation.

according to the organization, at the beginning of August, the preparedness store is 57%.

The state inspection of nuclear regulation of Ukraine has approved the application of the developed " Holtec Intl." double-layer container for the storage of spent nuclear fuel. According to a General contractor in the U.S. completed the first batch of ten containers, it is ready to be shipped to Ukraine.

in Ukraine employs four nuclear power plants, providing 50% of energy consumption. Spent fuel from three NPP sent to storage in the Russian Federation. Kiev hopes that the construction of the Central spent fuel storage facility will provide an opportunity to provide storage of about 20% of the fuel assemblies with spent nuclear fuel in the future to supply all the needs of three nuclear power plants of Ukraine.

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