Cooperation on NICA Project intensifies Germany and Russia are planning to extend their cooperation on the superconducting Nuclotron-based Ion Collider Facility (NICA), being built in Dubna, near Moscow, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research reported. JINR has 18 member states. Germany is one of six associate members with Egypt, Hungary, Italy, South Africa and Serbia. NICA,…
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…
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…
Floating NPPs, a Solution for Electricity Demand in Hot Countries? Could floating nuclear power plants be future reliable solutions in facing the increasing electricity demand, above all in the hottest countries? Some experts support the idea that floating NPPs could work in many coastal areas, e.g. of Africa, supplying electricity to port cities and surrounding…
Modernisation of Russian Research Reactor PIK Approved Russia’s Glavgosexpertiza experts have approved the project for the modernisation of the PIK reactor at St Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI), part of the Kurchatov Institute National Research Centre. The project documentation and the results of engineering surveys for retrofitting and selective targeted replacement of equipment and system…
The NICA Collider Booster Has Been Started The proton synchrotron booster has been started at Russia’s Nuclotron-based Ion Collider Facility (NICA), being built in Dubna, near Moscow. Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin visited the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and put the first cascade of the NICA complex into operation. The Booster synchrotron, or…
TVEL and St. Petersburg Polytechnic To Cooperate On Digital Engineering Technologies Russia’s St Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) signed an agreement for the development of cooperation between Rosatom’s fuel company TVEL and the Competence Centre of the National Technological Initiative (NTI) SPbPU New Production Technologies. The Roadmap, signed last 16 February and planned until the end…
ROSATOM Completes A New Milestone In ATF Development Program ROSATOM has achieved a scheduled milestone in the development of Russian accident tolerant fuel (ATF). The Research Institute of Atomic Reactors (NIIAR) has completed the second cycle of irradiation of the experimental fuel assemblies with VVER and PWR fuel rods in the MIR research reactor. Each…
ROSATOM’s Leningrad 2-2 Began Commercial Operation ROSATOM announced that Leningrad 2-2 nuclear power plant in Russia began commercial operation on Monday, 22 March 2021. This is the fourth Generation III+ unit with VVER-1200 PWR in Russia. It will substitute the Soviet-era Leningrad-2 with RBMK-1000 reactor, which shut down last November, fully replacing its capacity. Following…
Russian Research Institutes Support Fukushima Decommissioning Russia’s Research Institute of Atomic Reactors (NIIAR), in close cooperation with VG Khlopin Radium Institute (St Petersburg), Production Association Mayak and Techsnabexport (all parts of Rosatom) completed two projects related to the justification of the safe decommissioning of the Fukushima-Daiichi NPP. The research results were highly appreciated by Japanese…