A delegation of Russians from the state nuclear company Rosatom plans to visit the Savannah River Site today and tomorrow and visit a number of cleanup projects, but will not tour the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility under construction at the site. MOX is part of an agreement with Russia to dispose of surplus plutonium, and a delegation from Russia and the International Atomic Energy Agency had planned to visit the project in March. But that program has faced funding uncertainty on a number of fronts as it undergoes a rebaselining, and the visit to MOX was recently cancelled. The National Nuclear Security Administration did not respond to a request for comment on Friday afternoon regarding the cancellation.
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The group of four Russians plans to visit the Salt Waste Processing Facility, the Defense Waste Processing Facility, the L-Basin spent fuel storage pool and the grouted P Reactor. DOE spokesman Bill Taylor said in a written response, "The purpose of the visit by the Russian delegation from Rosatom and the Russian Academy of Science Institute of Energy Safety (IBRAE) will be to engage in discussions related to innovative technologies and approaches that are being used in the United States and Russia in areas of radioactive waste management, spent nuclear fuel management, decommissioning and dismantlement (D&D), and environmental remediation, to identify opportunities for information exchange and collaboration that would be mutually beneficial to both Russian and DOE Office of Environmental Management (EM) in completing their respective missions." The officials include the Rosatom Director for Nuclear & Radiation Safety Programs Implementation, the Rosatom Chief Specialist of Spent Fuel Management and a Rosatom Senior Scientific Researcher.
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