Design and Procurement of Waste Treatment Equipment for the Demonstration Fast Breeder Reactor

NUKEM Technologies Engineering Services GmbH signed a contract with Jiangsu CASHH Environmental Protection Co. Ltd for the design and procurement of waste treatment equipment for the Demonstration Fast Breeder Reactor.

NUKEM Technologies was contracted for the design, provision of technology and the delivery of selected equipment for the Waste Treatment Facility at Xiapu Nuclear Power Plan.

The waste treatment facility at Xiapu NPP site will be a separate tailor-made building design to manage the wet and solid waste, which will be generated by two units of the 600 MW Demonstration Fast Breeder Reactor.

The wet waste treatment part includes the tailor-made processes for the treatment of   spent resins and evaporator concentrates, it mainly includes specific designed equipment for the spent resin drying and loading into high integrity containers (HIC) as well as the process for drying of evaporator concentrates and loading into HIC and following grouting.

The dry waste treatment process part mainly consists of a waste sorting facility, the waste drying, segmentation sorting and compaction of the dry waste completed by final waste grouting and package inspection prior to the transfer of the final waste packages into the waste package storage repository which is located at the site.

NUKEM Technologies’ scope of supply & services comprises:

• Design for the Waste Treatment processes of the SRTF,
• Procurement selected Equipment,
• On-site supervision services for the installation and commissioning.