The general features and strategies of decommissioning BN-350 are presented. The features of sodium purification by 137Cs removal, coolant drainage from the reactor vessel, and transfer of sodium into a passive state are presented. The plans for decommissioning BN-350 are presented. The possibility of using the BN-350 sodium-handling technologies for BN-600 is examined.
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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 125, No. 4, pp. 195–200, October, 2018.
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Nosov, Y.V., Rovneiko, A.V., Tashlykov, O.L. et al. Decommissioning Features of BN-350, -600 Fast Reactors. At Energy 125, 219–223 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-019-00470-z
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