Russia has announced two new milestones in its ‘Proryv’, or Breakthrough, project to enable a closed nuclear fuel cycle. The ultimate aim is to eliminate production of radioactive waste from nuclear power generation.
OMZ subsidiary Izhorskiye Zavody has carried out pressure tests on the VVER-1000 reactor pressure vessel intended for unit 4 of Russia's Rostov nuclear power plant.
The first plant system components were delivered yesterday to the ITER construction site in Saint Paul-lez-Durance, France.
Russia has announced two new milestones in its ‘Proryv’, or Breakthrough, project to enable a closed nuclear fuel cycle. The ultimate aim is to eliminate production of radioactive waste from nuclear power generation. 
South Africa and Russia have signed an intergovernmental agreement on strategic partnership and cooperation in the nuclear industry.
The Priargunsky Industrial Mining and Chemical Union has completed a scheduled upgrade of its sulfuric acid plant, increasing its capacity by 25%.
The exhaust header structure - the first component of the passive heat removal system - has been installed on the dome of the first reactor building at the Novovoronezh II nuclear power plant. First criticality at unit 1 is schedule for the end of this year.
OMZ subsidiary Izhorskiye Zavody has carried out pressure tests on the VVER-1000 reactor pressure vessel intended for unit 4 of Russia's Rostov nuclear power plant.
The first plant system components were delivered yesterday to the ITER construction site in Saint Paul-lez-Durance, France. 
Installation of the first of the four steam generators at the Leningrad II nuclear power plant in western Russia will be completed within the next few days, general designer of the new plant Atomenergoproekt said today.
Russian power engineering R&D institute NIKIET has completed the engineering design for the BREST-300 lead-cooled fast reactor.