Lithuania is preparing to dismantle the reactor cores of the RBMK-type reactors (High Power Channel-type Reactor - ed.) at the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant – the same type that operated at the Chornobyl NPP. This was reported by LRT, according to UNN.
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It is noted that the second unit of the plant housed RBMK reactors, which were among the most powerful in the world. Plant employees are currently dismantling everything that can be safely removed without highly specialized experts.
The reactor core will be dismantled by robots equipped with what plant representatives call advanced technologies. Work on equipment with such high levels of radioactivity is typically not performed by humans,
It is expected that the reactor's graphite components will be dismantled by specialists from international companies, most likely from the United States or France.
"This will be the most difficult task. But we will be the first in the world to have done it,"
According to him, even after several hundred years, the repositories for radioactive components will likely look like mounds or small hills.
"Spent fuel storage facilities will remain concrete structures. We are also considering whether the main reactor buildings should be demolished at all. Perhaps it is more appropriate to preserve them as a scientific testing ground or a technological center,"
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