While
exporting gas, Russia proceeds in the next generation full-cycle
nuclear reactors
“Russia’s
‘Breakthrough’ energy project enables closed a nuclear fuel cycle
and a future without radioactive waste. The first batch of MOX
nuclear fuel has been manufactured for the world’s only NPP
industrially power generating breeder reactors.”
“A
world first, tablets of the fuel of the future have been put on
serial production and are destined for Russia’s next generation
BN-800 breeder reactor (880 megawatts), currently undergoing tests at
the Beloyarskaya nuclear power plant. The production line, now
undergoing start-up and adjustment, was assembled in a mine 200
meters underground and will become fully operational by the end of
2014.”
“Fast
fission reactors solve the problem of depleted uranium nuclear fuel
on the planet. They can ‘burn’ not only ‘classic’
uranium-235, (scarce and already coming to an end), but also
uranium-238, which is abundant, and expands the world’s nuclear
fuel capacity by an estimated 50 times. Fuel for breeder reactors
could even be made from nuclear waste, which from an ecological point
of view is a priceless advantage.”
“The
GKhK facility will be equipped with a unique dissolvent reactor that
will break down nuclear waste containing plutonium and extract
plutonium dioxide to be used in MOX-fuel production.”
“Also,
while producing electric energy, breeder reactors actually generate
more fissile material, and that one also can be used as nuclear fuel.
The GKhK plant is Russia’s leading full nuclear fuel cycle
complex, processing nuclear waste from power generating nuclear
reactors to establish future nuclear fuel ring closure.”
“Russian
physicists have already elaborated the next step for the
revolutionary technology: a BN-1200 breeder reactor that is set to be
assembled at the same Beloyarskaya nuclear power plant by 2020.
Overall, eight BN-1200 breeder reactors are expected to be
constructed by 2030, which means that Russia is the only nation that
is entering a new era of nuclear energy power generation – the
closed nuclear fuel cycle, in other words truly clean and practically
unlimited nuclear power generation.”
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