How Much Water Will Kazakhstan’s First Nuclear Power Plant Need For Cooling?
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About 60 million cubic meters of water will be needed each year to cool Kazakhstan’s first nuclear power plant, Deputy Chairman of the Atomic Energy Agency Asset Rakhmetov said, Orda.kz reports.
According to him, the plant is expected to use a third-generation reactor with two closed cooling circuits.
The water in this reactor cools only the condenser and does not come into contact with the reactor core. Therefore, it does not become contaminated or radioactive. Wet and dry cooling towers are planned for cooling the plant. As global practice shows, a plant with two reactors with a capacity of 1,200 megawatts each loses about 60 million cubic meters of water per year,Rakhmetov said.
He added that this is standard global practice and that the water loss occurs through natural evaporation. However, the agency has not yet decided how the plant’s spent nuclear fuel will be disposed of.
Original author: Alina Elgeldina
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