IRAW and CRAM Management Facility
Institutional radioactive waste (IRAW) and captured radioactive materials (CRAM) are very specific. The systemic solution of the problem they represent and the realization of this project, which is secured by JAVYS, however, are in public interest and are meant to increase the safety of the population of the whole Slovak Republic. The systemic solution is based on the Proposal for the Management of Institutional Radioactive Waste and Captured Radioactive Materials documentation. The SR government deliberated about this documentation in 2009.
Currently, RAW is being stored in the place of its origin, all around Slovakia. This state, however, is unsatisfactory. JAVYS secures a centralized collection and storage of this kind of waste. It has at its disposal transportation and handling means and trained professional personnel. Most of the institutional RAW and captured radioactive materials are stored on special premises, which are part of the Jaslovské Bohunice nuclear facility. Their storage at these premises is commissioned only for the time until non-nuclear waste management facilities for dealing with this kind of waste become available. Once the non-nuclear IRAW and CRAM management facility is built and commissioned, all such waste will be transferred into this facility, and such waste, which fulfills the storage criteria, will subsequently be processed, treated and deposited at the NRWR. JAVYS proposes to build it in Mochovce, near the National RAW Repository.
The facility will comprise of the IRAW and CRAM storage facility, the supplementary processes building and the gatehouse. All buildings will be standing in front of the fenced NRWR premises, at the site of the current parking lot, directly connected to the operations building of the current national repository. The storage space should be able to store approximately 20 tons of IRAW and CRAM. It is expected that about 95 % of the IRAW will be processed and subsequently stored at the national repository, while the remainder, especially the captured radioactive materials, will be temporarily stored in the new facility.
