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Decommissioning the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, The Chernobyl Shelter Implementation Plan, New Safe Confinement technical presentation, Interim Spent Fuel Storage technical presentation.

The total Arch structure, now weighing over 36,000 tonnes, would have to be moved over 300 meters on its ceramic sliding plates – this would render the NSC Arch, the heaviest land-based structure ever moved. Sealing the old structure with two End Walls (East and West) within the existing building to form containment walls under the NSC Arch End Walls. I especially recommend the videos, as they bring to life the magnitude and awe of the massive NSC construction project. Atmospheric CO2, Forecast and Predictions resulting from COVID-19 Worldwide Lockdown. Concrete pouring in the assembly area (erection zone) was also underway, this also provided a barrier for the workers against any surface contamination. “It required international cooperation and ingenuity to overcome the challenges presented by radiation and the environment around the plant, not to mention the Ukrainian winters.”, Balthasar Lindauer, EBRD director of Nuclear Safety, said: “We are honored to receive this prestigious award.

Chernobyl's reactor No. Two years after the Object Shelter was completed, on 22 December 1988, Soviet scientists publicly announced the results of a study estimating the Object Shelter would reach end-of-life following a period of 20 to 30 years. News Release Distribution and Press Release Distribution Services Provided by WebWire. Work continued well into 2013, April saw the approval of systems design for ventilation, auxiliary building, high voltage power supplies, and radiation monitoring & control systems for the Arch, including associated procurement. is made of more than 80 elements held together with 600,000 bolts. Nuclear Safety Projects & Radiation Science | Particle Physics | Fluid & Thermodynamics | Climate Variability & Environmental Science | Other areas of research: British (Royal) Etiquette | Social & Behavioural Psychology. © 2020 - Construction Superintendent. This air contact was responsible for large amounts of dissolved Argon in the water and for introduction of Ar-41 into the ventilation system. Bechtel ensures that engineering and construction meet the plant owner's strict quality requirements. Furthermore, the NSC Arch structure had to withstand a class 3 tornado and a 1 in a 1000-year snow and ice loading event, while containing the environment within at a constant negative pressure through specially designed filter systems. Moving the 36,000-tonne structure without deformation of the NSC Arch structure or subsidence of the ground, and/or any deformation/collapse of the Object Shelter, Removal of the old vent stack on Block-V (Deaerator stack structure) between Units 3 and 4 which was in the way of the NSC Arch sliding, and installation of a new vent stack on the same roof, a few meters further to the East, Overcoming obstructions that couldn’t be moved on the Object Shelter whilst sliding, and. It was estimated the sliding of the NSC Arch would take approximately four days in total, and although the process was known, having been tested, at least in part, nothing like this had ever been attempted before.