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Journal articles on the topic "Czechoslovak units"
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Rychlík, Jan. "The “Velvet Split ” of Czechoslovakia (1989‑1992)." Politeja 15, no. 6(57) (August 13, 2019): 169–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.12797/politeja.15.2018.57.10.
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The elections in June 1992 brought to power Vladimir Meciar‘s Movement for Democratic Slovakia (HZDS) in Bratislava and Vaclav Klaus‘ Civic Democratic Party (ODS) in Prague. In the concept of HZDS the idea of a parity (which is impossible to achieve between two units of differing size) gradually came to be associated with the concept of “Slovak sovereignty” and Slovakia’s “international legal subjectivity”, both incompatible with Czechoslovakia’s further existence. Such confederative model brought Czechs nothing but troubles. Subsequently, Prague now lost interest in keeping Slovakia within the Czechoslovak state. The result was “the velvet divorce” of Czechoslovakia on 31 December 1992.
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Novak, Jakub. "Women of the Legion: Unrecognized Members of the First Czechoslovak Army." Vesnik pravne istorije 1, no. 2/2020 (June 15, 2021): 171–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.51204/hlh_20207a.
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This paper introduces the reader to aspects of service of women in the Czechoslovak legion in Russia and conditions under which they could have received status of a legionnaire after their return from Russia. This legal status was established in the year 1920 and was meant as a reward for those who served in any of the Czechoslovak military units in exile (the Czechoslovak legions) during the war and fought for independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but was awarded almost exclusively to men. The paper analyses the legal reasons for this, which is later demonstrated on several specific cases.
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Valiakhmetov, Al’bert Nailevich. "INFLUENCE OF FEBRUARY REVOLUTION OF 1917 ON CZECHOSLOVAK MILITARY UNITS FORMATION AS IT IS INTERPRETED BY CZECHOSLOVAK LEGIONARY LITERATURE." Manuscript, no. 6 (June 2018): 10–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.30853/manuscript.2018-6.2.
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Moshechkov, Petr V. "The solution for the problem of the transportation of the first Czechoslovak transports to France (second half of 1917 — the beginning of 1918)." Slavic Almanac, no. 1-2 (2020): 165–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.31168/2073-5731.2020.1-2.1.10.
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The article is concerned with the history of organization and transportation of the first two Czechoslovak echelons from Russia to France. It is aimed at tracing the idea of sending of a part of Czech and Slovak prisoners of war to the Western front. This intention was for the first time expressed by leaders of the Czechoslovak National Council founded in Paris in February 1916. This decision appeared in connection with the shortage of soldiers in the French army and of workers in the war industry of the Third Republic. In this respect, the research touches upon the basic aspects of the negotiations conducted by J. Dürich, M. R. Štefánik and T. G. Masaryk with the Russian governmental and military institutions. The article also dwells on the preparation of departure of these Czechoslovak units by the northern route - via Arkhangelsk and Murmansk and the cooperation between the Branch of the Czechoslovak National Council and the French military missions in Russia in supplying for the volunteers. The article is based on the documents from the collections of the Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire, Russian State Historical Archive, Military Central Archive of Czech Republic and published materials.
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PAHIRIA, OLEKSANDR. "COOPERATION BETWEEN THE CZECHOSLOVAK MILITARY AND THE CARPATHIAN SICH TO COUNTERACT SABOTAGE ACTIONS BY POLAND AND HUNGARY AGAINST CARPATHO-UKRAINE (1938–1939)." Ukraine: Cultural Heritage, National Identity, Statehood 32 (2019): 97–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.33402/ukr.2019-32-97-112.
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The article examines one of the little-studied aspects of the subversive operation of Poland and Hungary against Carpatho-Ukraine, namely the military cooperation between the Carpathian Sich and the Czechoslovak Army and security agencies (StOS, gendarmery, state police, and financial guard) in the protection of the borders of the autonomous region against attacks by Polish and Hungarian saboteurs in fall 1938 – early 1939. Drawing on Czech and Polish archival materials, as well as memoirs, the author establishes the role of Czechoslovak officers in the provision of arms, ammunition, and training for the Carpathian Sich units, as well as in their engagement in joint intelligence and counter-sabotage activities in the border areas with Poland and Hungary. Such actions produced a joint Czech-Ukrainian response to the undeclared "hybrid war" waged by Poland and Hungary against Carpatho-Ukraine, which final aim was to establish a common frontier in the Carpathians. Despite its largely secondary (auxiliary) function in this operation, the Carpathian Sich members were able not only to demonstrate efficiency in the fight against Hungarian and Polish militants but at the same time to become a source of information for the Czechoslovak intelligence. From the point of view of the Czechoslovak command's interests, the Carpathian Sich served as a "non-state actor," who was trying to counter-balance the enemy's non-regular formations. The mentioned military cooperation marked the first stage in relations between the Carpathian Sich and the Czechoslovak military that started in the first half of November 1938 and ended in mid-January 1939 with the nomination by Prague of Czech general Lev Prchala as the third minister in the autonomous government of Carpatho-Ukraine. For the Carpathian Sich, the cooperation with the Czechoslovak security agencies produced their first combat experience and served as the source of replenishment of its scarce arsenal. Keywords: Carpatho-Ukraine, Carpathian Sich, sabotage, Poland, Hungary, "Lom" operation.
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Wohlmuth, Petr. "Zoufalství, jaderné rakety a magické hory. Uchronický příběh bývalého vojáka základní služby." Český lid 108, no. 2 (June 25, 2021): 131–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.21104/cl.2021.2.01.
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The text follows the post-cultural turn oral history paradigm, as expressed in concepts of Luisa Passerini, Alessandro Portelli, and others. It also makes use of the “dream stories” (Traumgeschichten) research by Reinhart Koselleck, to discover and interpret the cultural processes and forms related to the problematic historical subjectivity of an ex-Czechoslovak People’s Army conscript. The main historical source is the recorded oral-history narrative of a person, whose compulsory military service (1975–1977) led to a decidedly negative turn in his life. The narrator attempted to treat his shaken historical subjectivity through the creative construction of an elaborate uchronic story, merging his own military experience with motifs of imaginary service in units armed with nuclear weapons, with contemporary legends dealing with similar topics, and with older cultural strata, highlighting the phenomenon of “magical mountains” and apocalyptic military prophecies.
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Safyanyuk, Zoryana. "Peculiarities of Real Educational Institutions Functioning in the Subcarpathian Rus (Pidkarpatska Rus)." Journal of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University 1, no. 2-3 (December 22, 2014): 219–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.15330/jpnu.1.2-3.219-223.
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The article highlights historical and pedagogical aspects of the development of realsecondary educational institutions that functioned in the territory of the Subcarpathian Rus (1919-1939). After World War I the Czechoslovak Republic undertook a commitment to arrangeTranscarpathia as an administrative unit entitled the “Subcarpathian Rus”. The situation withUkrainian schools in the Subcarpathian Rus was very poor. Only two town schools wereUkrainian. In spite of the language chaos in the land, Rus (Ukrainian) town schools started to be setup and Hungarian ones started being re-organized. In the 20ies – 30ies in the Subcarpathian Rus asthere appeared real national secondary schools (real grammar schools) in which students weremainly Ukrainians. In real grammar schools with their utilitarian nature of the content of educationthere could be traced the growth in the number of students due to improved access to thoseinstitutions. However, gradually, the trend towards Czechization could be traced, a number offorms with Czech as the language of teaching were opened. The Academy of Sciences in Prague,having researched the language issue, decided that the language the “Subcarpathian Rus people”were speaking was identical to the Ukrainian language of the Halychyna people, thereforeUkrainian was acknowledged to be the language of teaching at Ukrainian real grammar schools.All in all, as of 1933 Ukrainian real grammar schools in Berehovo, Khust, Mukachevo andUzhhorod had 46 forms, parallel Czech units in Khust, Mukachevo and Uzhhorod had 20 forms,parallel Hungarian units in Berehovo had 12 forms, the reformed Jewish grammar school inMukachevo had 8 forms. In total there were 9 secondary schools.
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Jarnecki, Michał, and Mykoła Palinczak. "Kwestie i spory religijne na terenie Rusi Zakarpackiej w czechosłowackim epizodzie jej dziejów." Sprawy Narodowościowe, no. 45 (December 31, 2014): 88–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.11649/sn.2014.025.
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The issues and religious disputes in Carpathian Ruthenia in Czechoslovak period and its echoes behind the AtlanticIn Subcarpathian Ruthenia in the interwar period – during her membership in Czechoslovakia, one of the sharper conflict was a dispute between two Christian churches. In fact, the rivalry of the two churches began even earlier, during the Hungarian reign – before 1918, but broke out with the new intensity in the interwar period. The Czech authorities, retained neutrality in the confessional disputes, unlike its predecessors, favoring the units. The dispute also had political significance – namely in the conflict between national orientations: Russophile and Ukrainian. Both churches were not monoliths and shook them as internal tensions, including politically motivated ones. Religious conflicts had also their roots and echoes on the other side of the Atlantic. Part of the Greek-Catholic immigrants Transcarpathian did not want to submit to the American Catholic hierarchy, who failed to see the specifics of this group of emigrants. During the period between the Uniate Church recorded outflow faithful to the Orthodox Church, by almost 5% (from nearly 55% to 50.2%) and Orthodox increase by approximately the same proportion – over 15% of the population. Kwestie i spory religijne na terenie Rusi Zakarpackiej w czechosłowackim epizodzie jej dziejówNa Rusi Zakarpackiej w okresie międzywojennym, podczas jej przynależności do Czechosłowacji, jednym z ostrzejszych konfliktów był spór pomiędzy dwoma chrześcijańskimi Kościołami. Faktycznie rywalizacja dwóch Kościołów zaczęła się wcześniej, za rządów węgierskich – przed 1918 rokiem, ale rozgorzała z nową intensywnością w okresie międzywojennym, kiedy władze czeskie, zachowywały neutralność w tych konfesyjnych sporach, w przeciwieństwie od poprzedników, faworyzujących unitów. Spór miał także aspekt polityczny – ocierając się o konflikt między orientacjami narodowymi: ukraińską i rosyjską. Oba Kościoły nie były monolitami i wstrząsały nimi także wewnętrzne napięcia, w tym na tle politycznym. Konflikty na tle religijnym miały też swoje zaoceaniczne korzenie i echa, gdzie część grekokatolickich emigrantów zakarpackich nie chciała się podporządkować amerykańskiej hierarchii katolickiej, nie dostrzegającej specyfiki tej grupy wychodźców. Podczas okresu międzywojennego Kościół unicki odnotował odpływ wiernych na rzecz prawosławia, o prawie 5% (z prawie 55 do 50,2%), a Cerkiew Prawosławna przyrost o mniej więcej o ten sam odsetek – do ponad 15% mieszkańców.
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Ochrana, František, Michal Plaček, and Milan Jan Půček. "Shortfall of Strategic Governance and Strategic Management in the Czech Republic." Central European Journal of Public Policy 10, no. 2 (December 1, 2016): 30–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cejpp-2016-0024.
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Abstract The article analyses the problems of strategic governance and strategic management of the Czechoslovak Government, as well as the Government of the Czech Republic in the years 1989-2016. It seeks the causes and factors that have caused the low levels of strategic governance and strategic management at the level of the ministries of the Czech Republic. It examines the problem from genetic and historical perspective, and from the organizational and human capacity to exercise strategic governance. The study is based on two pieces of empirical research within the ministries of the Czech Republic. It identifies the main cause of failure of strategic governance and strategic management at the level of the central government of the Czech Republic. These include, in particular, the persistent distrust of the ideas of strategic governance and strategic management held by the right-wing governments and the generally low capacity of governments of the Czech Republic to engage in strategic governance. The organizational structure of the central state administration lacks the strategic units that generate ideas for supporting strategic governance. The empirical research of the ministries of the Czech Republic also revealed that policy workers in Czech ministries dedicate a large proportion of their work time to operational and administrative activities at the expense of analytical and strategic activities. The changes require implementation of reforms within the public administration, which (among other things) will eliminate the existing causes and inhibiting factors regarding the lack of strategic governance in the Czech Republic.
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Sribniak, Ihor. "Military Vocational and General Education of the Interned Soldiers of the UNR Army at Camp Strzałkowo in Poland (August 1921 – 1922): Realization Patterns." European Historical Studies, no. 16 (2020): 155–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2524-048x.2020.16.12.
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The article deals with the peculiarities of military-professional and general education of interned Ukrainian soldiers in the Strzałkowo camp (August 1921 – 1922). Due to this, the top political leadership and command of the Army of the Ukrainian People’s Republic hoped to lay the foundations for a conscious understanding of state needs and the priority of national interests. The task of establishing military-professional and general education of the military in the Strzałkowo camp was entrusted to the camp’s cultural and educational department, which was to interact with similar structures of individual units. Due to the total lack of any resources for these needs in the State Center of the Ukrainian People’s Republic in exile, the activities of educational centers in the Strzałkowo camp were always marked by great difficulties, as a result, the work of most educational courses and schools was irregular, which usually worsened the very quality of knowledge of the campers. But despite this situation, the initiative minority of campers managed to ensure the activities of a number of schools and educational courses, giving the rest of the internees the opportunity to fill their camp existence with constructive content. A very significant contribution to the work of most of the camp’s cultural and educational centers was made by the American Charitable Organization YМСА, which spared no expense for most of the educational needs of the campers. Camp public organizations, whose members were involved in teaching work with the rest of the camp, also contributed to the intensification of educational work in Strzałkowo, and in addition made every effort to improve their own general education level. It is thanks to this combination that a large number of camp teachers were able to prepare for admission and study in higher education institutions in Poland and the Czechoslovak Republic, adapting to the conditions of emigration.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Czechoslovak units"
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Lupejová, Eva. "Dimitrij LUPEJ - životní příběh válečného veterána 2. světové války." Master's thesis, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-326981.
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Cílem této diplomové práce je zpracovat do podoby biografické studie životní osudy autorčina dědy Dimitrije Lupeje (roč. 1917), rodáka z Podkarpatské Rusi, který prošel nechvalně proslulými pracovními tábory Gulagu a následně se připojil k čs. jednotkám generála L. Svobody. S jeho armádou bojoval u Kyjeva, na Dukle, kde byl zraněn a posléze došel až do Prahy. Po válce zůstal v československé armádě až do svého odchodu do penze v roce 1972. Ve své diplomové práci by se autorka chtěla především zaměřit na tři okruhy dědova života - gulag, východní fronta a poválečná armáda. Získaný materiál, doprovázen vzpomínkami jeho vrstevníků - též válečných veteránů, by měl být doplněn a konfrontován o poznatky z archívních zdrojů a příslušné odborné literatury. Autorka práce využije při analýze životního příběhu svého předka metodu orální historie a zároveň se pokusí začlenit celý příběh do kontextu obecných dějin, přičemž nabídne ucelený pohled na osud jednotlivce, jenž byl ovlivněn převratnými historickými událostmi tehdejší Evropy. Klíčová slova: Dimitrij Lupej, válečný veterán, druhá světová válka, gulag, armáda, čs. jednotky, Ludvík Svoboda, Sovětský svaz, Podkarpatská Rus, komunismus. ABSTRACT: The aim of this thesis is to elaborate a biographical study of the life story of the author's grandfather...
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Mach, Pavel. "Český nacionalismus a vznik Církve Československé." Doctoral thesis, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-389165.
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This paper describes nationalism as a phenomenon that has become an integral part of Czech society in the 19th century and its manifestations. It describes the main motives Czech nationalist ideology created by T. G. Masaryk. It also described the political situation during the First World War and the circumstances of the independent Czechoslovak state and its share in breaking the Austro - Hungarian monarchy. The work deals with the problem of modernism in the Catholic Church, whose adherents later became the founder of the Church of Czechoslovakia. Briefly describes the lives of the founders of the church and their relationship to nationalist political movements. The core of the work is the analysis of texts relating to the reform movement of the Czech Catholic clergy and the Czechoslovak church, from the period between 1906 - 1931, which is determined by the definition of nationalism seeks to assess its impact on the formation and other life Czechoslovak Church.
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Vozňaková, Veronika. "Vliv českého fašismu na Národní demokracii a její podoby." Master's thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-347580.
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The purpose of the thesis is to examine the relationships between the Czech fascists and the National Democratic Party in all its forms. The thesis covers the analysis of these relationships and their displays. The author used analytical and comparative methods as well as available specialized literature and other sources. The dissertation is divided into four main chapters. The first chapter analyzes the fascist theory, its main characteristics and, in one of its subchapter, the specific Czech scheme for better understanding of the fascist environment during the First Czechoslovakian Republic era. The second chapter deals with fascists' actions and operation during the First Czechoslovakian Republic era. For important changes that took place in 1938, the political system of the so called "Second Republic" is briefly mentioned, as the political direction was extremely right wing oriented. The third chapter focuses on the National democratic party and analyzes the party's activities up to 1935. For better compression, the Czechoslovak political system is also outlined in this section. Chapter four is the key part of the dissertation as it deals with the relations and cooperation between the Czech fascists and National democracy and cooperation with the National Unity from 1935. To complete the...
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Nedbal, Václav. "Československo za komunistické totality ve filmu a seriálu a využití těchto ve výuce." Master's thesis, 2021. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-446470.
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This diploma thesis focuses on the appropriate and effective use of film and serial adaptations of topics falling into the period of communist totalitarianism in Czechoslovakia (that is between 1948 and 1989, with emphasis on the period 1948-1969). The thesis is divided into four chapters, whereas the main part, which is didactic, is described in the third and fourth chapter. The first chapter describes the basic historical context of the communist government in Czechoslovakia between 1948 and 1989. It also shows and explains the origin of the idea of communism, the further development of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia during the First Republic, and the postwar Third Republic. This chapter was put together using found edited sources and secondary literature. The second chapter deals with individual film and serial processing of topics related to the period. It presents specific films and series which were produced in the most recent years (or the post-revolutionary period), but also materials produced during the totalitarianism before 1989. In this chapter some works are discussed in greater detail, others are presented as selected alternative options for interaction for educational purposes. The third chapter summarizes the didactic and historical potential of the discussed topic, it also...
Books on the topic "Czechoslovak units"
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zka, Ivan Procha. Tanky: C eskoslovenska samostatna obrne na briga da : 1943-1945. [Praha]: Capricorn Publications, 2009.
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Pucci, Molly. "A Revolution in a Revolution in Czechoslovakia." In Security Empire, 197–250. Yale University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300242577.003.0006.
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This chapter examines the campaigns to bring new recruits from the working class into the StB and to establish a centralized party organization in the security force. It discusses the activities of the instructor group, a counterintelligence unit tasked with collecting information on lower-level StB offices to inform major personnel changes to the force in the early 1950s. These personnel changes were accompanied by important shifts in the structure and methods of the force inspired by the Czechoslovaks’ trips to secret police schools in Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania from 1949. It ends by describing the arrests and trials of leading figures in the Czechoslovak secret police starting in the early 1950s.
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"The integration of Czechoslovakia in the economic system of Nazi Germany." In Making the New Europe : European Unity and the Second World War. Bloomsbury Academic, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474290319.ch-006.
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Klinger, William, and Denis Kuljiš. "The Arsenal of the Mediterranean Revolution." In Tito's Secret Empire, 293–98. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197572429.003.0044.
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This chapter elaborates the capture of the Yugoslav ship Srbija off the Algerian coast by the French navy on 7 August 1957, which was then escorted to the military port of Mers-el-Kebir. It notes the independence of Morocco and the crowning of Sultan Mohammed as King Mohammed V, who provided strong support to those fighting against French and Spanish colonialism. It also discusses police officers in Casablanca that confiscated war material from the shipment of the Czechoslovak party and secretly distributed it to the Algerian insurgents. The chapter reviews the Warsaw Pact summit that took place in Budapest from 1 to 4 January 1957, wherein the renewed communist unity under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev was demonstrated. It pays attention to Marshal Tito's attendance at the summit, where he gave his public support to the renewed Cominform, hoping to redeem himself for the secret support he had been giving to Imre Nagy.
Conference papers on the topic "Czechoslovak units"
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Wisniewski, J., and Z. Karpus. "Creation of national units within the Czechoslovak Corps in Siberia (May 1918 - January 1919)." In Civil War in the East of Russia (November 1917 – December 1922). FUE «Publishing House SB RAS», 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.31518/978-5-7692-1664-0-206-214.
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Breza, Milan. "Systematical Approach to the Radioactive Waste Management in Slovak Republic." In ASME 2001 8th International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2001-1156.
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Abstract The aim of this paper is to inform of the world’s specialists about the systematical approach to the radioactive waste management in Slovak Republic (Slovakia). In Slovakia are in operation six preassurized light water reactors at NPPs V-1, V-2 in Jaslovske Bohunice and reactors 2×440 MWe in NPP Mochovce at present. The installed elektro-capacity produced from these reactors is 2640 MWe total. The first experimental NPP in the former Czechoslovakia was NPP A-1. It had used natural uranium as a fuel and heavy water as a moderator and CO2 as a cooling medium. The installed preformance of this NPP A-1 was 150 MWe and was in operation since 1972 to 1977. After two technological incidents former Czechoslovak government have decided to take out of this NPP A-1 from operation. According to former Soviet projects concerning for costructions of the above mentioned NPP in Jaslovske Bohunice Slovakia, to these project didn’t belong the projects for constructions of the technological units for the radioactive waste treatment, expect of the evaporating plant for the contaminated water concetration and storage tanks for the evaporated concentrates storage and storage possibilities for the contaminated solid waste storage. A comparable complicated situation was at NPP A-1, because all type of the radioactive waste streams content gama, beta and alfa radioanuclides as well. The second technological incident at NPP A-1 (with the some portion of the cooling medium CO2 leaking form the reactor vessel out) caused contamination for the NPP A-1 operating spaces by alfa radionuclides and alfa radionuclides penetrated in all waste streams at storage tanks, pipelines, vessels, etc. as well. During the beginning of the 80’s were realized some states R and D tasks that solved the systematical approach to the radioactive waste treatment in former Czechoslovakia. The main aim of the first etap was solved the all problems connected for the radioactive waste, treatment that are formed during NPPs of the VVER-440 type operation. It was necessary to secure the production of the electro energie. The most seriously priority had the tasks, that solved of the evaporator concentrates and solid waste treatment, especially burnable, pretratment. Simultaneuosly were solved the problems connected with the proposals, designings and realisations of the disposals for the long term storage of the treated RAW in the Czech and Slovak regions. In this presentation I have tried to deliver main information, that give of the survey for RAW treatment and their long term safety storage at disposal system in Mochovec - Slovakia.
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Molnar, Jozef, Marek Pecka, and Jaroslav Kment. "SCORPIO-VVER: Two Decades of Experience and Enhancements in Reactor Core Monitoring and Surveillance in Central Europe." In 2017 25th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone25-66867.
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During the years 1970–80’ in the satellite countries of the former Soviet Union more than 24 new reactor builds were started. In the former Czechoslovakia, the new builds were realized with a high degree of input from the local engineers and the local industry. This territory up to today has an indigenous nuclear industry, machinery and nuclear engineering background. Starting with the year 1972, on the territory of Czechoslovakia (now on the territory of the Czech and Slovak Republic) 12 new units of the VVER-440 type of reactors were started to build. Nowadays the 2 oldest units were already shutdown in Slovakia, 4+4 units are still operating in both countries, and 2 units of VVER-440 model V213 are still under construction in Slovakia. The reactors designed lifetime in original configuration are 30 years. During these units’ operation period, wide range of modifications and upgrades were performed to strengthen the nuclear safety and the reactors operability. In 2015/16, activities related to the unit operation licenses extension were carried out in both of countries. In scope of strengthening the reactor’s core monitoring and surveillance, at Dukovany NPP (CZ, 1998) and at Bohunice NPP (SK, 2001) the original Russian VK3 computation system was completely replaced with an alternative advanced Core Monitoring and Surveillance System (CMS) SCORPIO-VVER. In Hungary, a locally developed “Verona”, and on the units under construction in Slovakia the Russian “Kruiz” CMS is used. Nowadays the SCORPIO-VVER CMS presents a nuclear fuel type and fuel vendor independent, advanced computer based reactor core monitoring system with an open and flexible framework, including the latest achievements in the fields of N/F and T/H for reliable and safe reactor operation with high efficiency of fuel cycle. The system’s framework governing the know-how and knowledge of 5 European institutes with proven experiences with reactor operation, fuel pattern and fuel campaign design and with utilizing the existing unit’s project reserves to increase the reactor operation and fuel campaign efficiency. Since the first installation the SCORPIO-VVER CMS system has a remarkable operating history and experience. More than 18 years of experiences at 6 units of VVER-440 type of reactors in two different countries helps to put the system to a very high level of usability and reliability. Even if the SCORPIO-VVER is installed only on VVER-440 reactors, it could be adapted to the needs of other VVER type of reactors and to needs of education and training centers too.
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Kravárik, Kamil, Vladimír Míchal, and Peter Menyhardt. "Technologies Used for D&D of the A-1 NPP in Slovakia and Their Comparison With Advanced Worldwide Approaches." In ASME 2001 8th International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2001-1279.
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Abstract This paper deals with technologies used for decommissioning and decontamination of the A-1 Nuclear Power Plant in Slovakia and their comparison with advanced worldwide approaches. Present status and main results in the field of D&D of this first Czechoslovak NPP A-1 at Jaslovské Bohunice are described. NPP A-1 has one unit with reactor cooled by CO2 and moderated by heavy water. Plant was in operation from 1972 to 1977 and its final shutdown and closure were done due to relatively serious accident. The A-1 NPP Decommissioning Project – I. phase is performed at the present time and represents the most important project of NPP decommissioning in Central Europe. The main goal of the project is to achieve radiologically safe status of the NPP. It includes following activities: • conditioning, storage and disposal of liquid radioactive waste, solid and metallic radioactive waste, sludge and sorbents, • development, manufacture and verification of advanced methodologies and technologies for D&D of nuclear facilities, • decontamination of specified equipment and structures to reduce free activity, • technical support and preparation of following phases within the A-1 NPP overall decommissioning process. The project should give the complex solution of problems related to decommissioning and decontamination of NPPs in Slovakia. Verified methodology and technology should be used as a generic approach for decommissioning of the V-1, V-2 (Jaslovské Bohunice) and Mochovce Nuclear Power Plants as well as the other European NPPs with WWER reactors. Significant part of paper deals with following issues within D&D of the A-1 NPP: • computer aided technologies, • decontamination, • dismantling, demolishing and remote handling manipulators, • dosimetry measurements within D&D, • radioactive waste management. This paper also includes basic comparison with advanced worldwide approaches to decommissioning and decontamination mainly in USA, Japan and West Europe and the recommendations are done when it is possible. The comparison shows that trends in the field of D&D in the Slovak Republic are compatible and comparable with the most significant world trends. It is noted that some sorts of D&D technologies like for example telerobotic systems developed in the world are at the relatively higher technical level. Decommissioning technologies in Slovakia should be permanently improved on the base of experiences from home and abroad industry and from the real operation. It is supposed that after short time could be achieved technical level comparable with the best D&D robots and manipulators. A basic strategy of NPP decommissioning in the Slovak Republic is regulated by standards, which are in accordance with recommendations of international bodies like the International Atomic Energy Agency, European Commission, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, OECD Nuclear Energy Agency etc. In the field of NPP D&D the Slovak Republic co-operates with many international organizations and also with main active countries in D&D like Germany, France, Belgium, Great Britain, USA, Japan, Russian Federation, Hungary, Poland and Czech Republic. Intensive international co-operation at all levels has already been established at the present time.