The Spanish national radioactive waste company, Enresa, has awarded SGN a contract to supply a new 500-litre mixer for solidification of low and medium level radioactive waste. The mixer will require a cement matrix (grout) formulation according to safety criteria set out by CSN, the Spanish nuclear regulatory authority. Other safety-related features include integral nuclear containment, uniform waste encapsulation and low rinsing volumes, which reduce secondary effluent generation.
SGN has supplied radwaste mixers to Canada, the US, Belgium, France, Switzerland and Taiwan, and is currently installing two units in Russia and Ukraine. The new mixer for Spain will be double the capacity of previously installed units.
| Rumyantsev’s background |
| Alexander Yurievich Rumyantsev was born in the town of Kushka, Turkmenia, in 1945. He graduated from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in 1969, and he has since worked at the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow. He joined as an engineer, and in 1973, he became a junior research assistant, progressing to senior research assistant in 1982. He became head of the Physics of Solid Bodies Department in 1989 and a scientific development director in 1993. Since 1994, he has been Executive Director of the Institute. In 1997, he became a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Science (RAS) in Physics, and in 2000, an RAS academician and a professor at Moscow Engineering Physics Institute. He is an experimental physicist with a special interest in solid state and neutron physics. He is a member of the Board of the Russian Nuclear Society and has authored more than 70 scientific articles and papers. Introducing Rumyantsev to the other ministers following his appointment, President Putin said he is one of the youngest managers to ever attain this senior level. |
