National Nuclear Generating Company Energoatom has announced a tender to design a project and working documents for the construction of a centralized waste nuclear fuel storage facility for WWER reactors of Ukrainian nuclear power plants (NPPs).
According to an announcement of the holding in the Visnyk Derzhavnykh
Zakupivel bulletin, bids can be submitted by Aug. 21, 2014. The bids
will be opened on the same day.
The design work is to be finished by Jan. 31, 2016.
The guarantee is a bank guarantee or a guarantee of an insurance organization worth Hr 10,000.
Energoatom and Holtec International (the United States) in late June
signed a supplementary agreement to the contract for the construction of
a centralized waste nuclear fuel storage facility.
The document deals with the resumption of work under the contract of
2005 with regard to developing the project of a centralized storage. The
resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers allowed the start of this step.
The cabinet allocated two land plots with a total area of 45.2 hectares
in the restricted zone around Chornobyl nuclear power plant for this
project.
Energoatom President Yuriy Nedashkovsky instructed the relevant
services of the company in the short term to form an ad hoc group and
begin work on the revision of the contract. In particular, the matter
concerns the transfer from the tender pricing system to the principle
“costs plus,” the new procedure of financing, performing part of work by
Energoatom.
As reported, in order to reduce waste related to the transporting of
spent nuclear fuel, in 2003 Energoatom announced an international tender
to select a company to build a centralized dry waste storage area for
spent nuclear fuel from Yuzhnoukrainsk, Rivne and Khmelnytsky nuclear
plants (Zaporizhia NPP already has its own spent nuclear fuel storage
facility on site). The tender was won by Holtec International (the
United States) in late 2005. Energoatom in December 2005 signed a
contract worth 127.75 million euros to design, license, build and
commission a first stage of the storage facility.
The Ukrainian parliament passed a law on the construction of the central waste nuclear fuel storage facility in February 2012.
According to cabinet resolution No. 131 of Feb. 12, 2009, the
first stage (the launch complex) of the facility is to be built in 36
months for Hr 1.23 billion, while the cost of the whole construction is
estimated at Hr 3.68 billion.
A feasibility study prepared by Energoproekt (Kyiv) foresees the
projected capacity of the facility at 16,530 assemblies, including
12,010 from WWER-1000 reactors and 4,520 from WWER-440 reactors.
The capacity of the first stage is 3,620 assemblies, including 2,510 from WWER-1000 reactors.
