The PKPTRV includes a Solid Waste Retrieval Facility and Solid Waste Processing Plant involving four facilities for the management of solid radioactive waste combined in a single technological cycle. These facilities include:
Lot 0 – temporary storage for low- and intermediate-level long-lived waste as well as high-level waste. This is part of the Liquid and Solid Waste Storage Facility and was commissioned in 2010.
Lot 1 – this will retrieve solid wastes from an existing solid waste storage facility. It will handle 3 cubic metres of waste a day over an operational life of 30 years.
Lot 2 – this will sort solid wastes and process low- and intermediate-level wastes at the rate of 20 cubic metres a day. Some solid and liquid wastes will be incinerated, and some will be cemented. It can package 1.5 cubic metres of long-lived low- and intermediate-level waste a day, and can store 3,500 cubic metres of low- intermediate- and high-level waste.
Lot 3 – this is a near-surface storage facility for low- and intermediate-level short-lived waste with a capacity of 55,000 cubic metres. It will accept waste for 30 years and store it for 300 years.
Lots 1&2 are being built at the ChNPP site and Lot 3 at the site of the Vector complex in the exclusion zone. The PKPTRV was majority funded by the European Union.
