Fuel storage facility under construction

Current planning considers that the operational wet storage will be followed by interim wet storage in a 16 m deep pool at LAPEP at the Centro Atomico Ezeiza, currently under construction. As regards the spent fuel currently stored at the facility with underground tubes, they will be sent to the storage pool at LAPEP. 

During the biennium 2003-2004, a conceptual design of interim dry storage for spent fuel assemblies was developed, and at present the basic engineering design is being completed. When it is constructed, spent fuel assemblies will be processed for transfer to the facility. At that time the spent fuel assemblies will be stored under the basic criteria of confinement and retrievability. 

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