First Criticality Achieved at Leningrad 2-2 Russian State Corporation Rosatom announced the achievement of the first nuclear reaction recorded at Leningrad 2-2. This is the first time the nuclear facility has reached the minimum controllable power. This means that the neutron flux control equipment has recorded stable neutron capacity, and the first self-sustained controlled nuclear…
Technology Upgrade for Russian Nuclear Fuel Production Russia’s MSZ (Mashinostroitelny Zavod), part of state nuclear corporation Rosatom’s fuel company TVEL, has begun producing uranium dioxide powder for fuel pellets using new technology. A new site has started a pilot operation for the production of uranium dioxide powder by the reduction pyrohydrolysis method (RPGU). The large-scale…
Rosatom’s Cyclotron for Development of Nuclear Medicine and Research On July 15-17, 2020 JSC Efremov NIIEFA (Saint-Petersburg), shipped off the equipment, which is part of an isochronous cyclotron СС-30/15. Nine containers of total weight 120 tons were sent to Thailand, where JSC Rusatom Health Care and Kinetics Corporation Ltd. carry out the construction of the…
Russia Produced the First Full Batch of MOX Fuel for BN-800 Fast Reactor The Mining and Chemical Combine in Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk region (East Siberia) has manufactured the first full reload batch of fresh uranium-plutonium MOX fuel for BN-800 fast reactor, operated at Beloyarsk NPP. The 169 fuel assemblies have been accepted by Rosenergoatom, the operator…
Framatome, GE Steam Power and Rosatom signed a MoU on Belene NPP Project French-based company Framatome, Russian State company Rosatom and GE Steam Power signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the framework of the strategic investor selection procedure for the Belene Nuclear Power Plant, in Bulgaria. According to the MoU, the companies will work…
Rosatom – Technologies and Solutions for SMRs Artem Larionov of Rosatom Overseas told the last webinar organised by European Nuclear Society that R&D work on fuel for the first-of-a-kind (FOAK) plant has begun. The reactor technology will be based on Russia’s RITM-200 plant, an advanced pressurised water reactor (PWR) unit which is already operational on three…