Spent Fuel Storage Developments in Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union

There are 81 nuclear power plant units in the former Soviet Union and in Eastern European countries, with a generating capacity of more than 50,000 MWe. Changes in politics and trading relationships are affecting spent fuel management policies. This paper describes the various approaches to the back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle adopted in these countries and reports data on the amount of spent fuel discharged from the nuclear power reactors with a summary table. Various types of interim storage facilities under consideration are described with a table for the Away- From-Reactor spent fuel storage capacities for the countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.