From Half-life to the afterlife – Chernobyl and beyond (Extending reactor life spans)

The 26th April marks the 32nd anniversary of the infamous Chernobyl disaster in (what was then Soviet) Ukraine.

Nuclear power remains a necessity within the Ukrainian energy mix, and will do for the foreseeable future.  That is clearly not without risk, (Chernobyl legacy, crumbling and long ignored infrastructure aside), for there remains something of a dependence upon Russia with regard to fuel and its disposal – albeit Ukraine is trying to minimise/remove Russia from that supply chain for obvious geopolitical reasons.

Nevertheless, the current Ukrainian nuclear power infrastructure is hardly new, and neither is there the significant finance available to build and commission enough plants to take existing nuclear plants originally designed with a 30 year lifespan, off-line.

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