Duration: 2008-2024
This project includes preliminary activities for the dismantling of IPU and OPEC plants. More specifically, it involves the clearance of unnecessary objects before decommissioning, upgrading existing premises to be used for the storage and management of potentially releasable material, and plant adaptation.
Following the approval of the executive project, the adaptation of electric plants in the Plutonium plant was launched - to improve safety and facilitate decommissioning operations. This adaptation provides the replacement of switchgear, the upgrading of lighting, driving force, and alarm transmission systems, and the replacement of the fire protection system.
During 2021, Sogin submitted the operational plans related to the clearance of the obsolete instruments "Asso" and "Torre Tovaglieri" located in premises 45 and 24a of the Plutonium plant to ISIN (National Inspectorate for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection). These obsolete instruments will be dismantled in 2022 to make room for the management of potentially releasable material and the performance of radiological characterisation operations.
Moreover, the operators are currently working on designing two storage areas for potentially releasable material.
As for the OPEC-1 repository, the operators are currently designing a weighing station for the vehicles exiting from the repository. Removal of asbestos from the building roof and re-roofing procedures to comply with the current legislation will be also carried out in the short term.