Russia's Rosatom and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development have announced milestone dates for two projects in their so-called Nuclear Window program.
Russia has designed an advanced core melt trap, or core catcher, for the Akkuyu nuclear power plant that is specific to conditions in Turkey, Atomenergoproekt, the principal designer for the project, said today.
Russia expects to reprocess all of its 'damaged' used nuclear fuel - at Mayak Production Association in Ozersk - by 2030, and to open the second stage of its centralized dry storage facility - at the Mining and Chemical Combine in Zheleznogorsk - by 2016.
NIKIMT-Atomstroy said yesterday that it had poured first concrete for a multi-functional radiochemical research centre at the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors in Dimitrovgrad.
Russia has completed testing of the TVS-5 fuel assembly containing mixed nitrides, the prototype fuel for the pilot demonstration reactor BREST-OD-300 that is to be built at the site of the Siberian Chemical Combine in Tomsk. Construction work is to start in 2016 and be completed in 2020.
NIKIMT-Atomstroy said yesterday that it had poured first concrete for a multi-functional radiochemical research centre at the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors in Dimitrovgrad.