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Radioactive storage facilities at NPPs to fill up in 5-7 years
Publish date: July 23, 2003
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Radioactive storage facilities at NPPs to fill up in 5-7 years
Radioactive storage facilities at the Russian NPPs are filled to 70% capacity in average.
Sergey Nemytov, the head of the science-technical support department of the Rosenergoatom concern, said on April 9th. If the radioactive waste generation at the NPPs continues at the same pace, the facilities would be filled up in 5-7 years.
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