Rosatom initiates a crucial milestone in the development of Generation IV nuclear power by commencing pilot operations for its BREST-OD-300 fuel fabrication facility. Located in Seversk, Siberia, the facility will produce fuel for the innovative lead-cooled fast neutron reactor.
Russia’s state atomic energy corporation – Rosatom – has announced the beginning of pilot operations of its nuclear fuel fabrication/refabrication facility or its BREST-OD-300 reactor. The BREST-OD-300 is a lead-cooled fast neutron reactor – and the beginning of pilot operations is a key milestone in the development of the Generation IV nuclear power system.
The unit for fabrication/refabrication nuclear fuel for the innovative BREST-OD-300 fast neutron reactor was put into pilot operation in Seversk, Tomsk Region, West Siberia. Rosatom says that it is the first of the three facilities of the unique Generation IV Pilot Demonstration Energy Complex (PDEC), which is under construction as part of the strategic project “Proryv” (the Breakthrough) on site of the Siberian Chemical Combine.Rosatom, through a press release on December 25, 2024, announced that the automated facility has already made mockup fuel bundles of the BREST-OD-300 core design with depleted uranium nitride fuel pellets. The fuel fabrication facility includes four production sites: carbothermal synthesis of mixed uranium and plutonium nitrides, fabrication of fuel pellets, manufacturing of fuel elements, and assembly of complete fuel bundles. As of now, the staff is involved in the fabrication of BREST-OD-300 bundles with depleted uranium fuel matrix in compliance with the current license of Rostechnadzor (the Russian industrial and nuclear regulator). After receiving approval from the regulator for handling plutonium, the staff will begin producing the target product – mixed dense nitride uranium-plutonium fuel (or the MNUP fuel).Russia plans to build a Generation IV nuclear power system that involves the application of various technologies that are united by a common result – higher fuel utilization efficiency, increased safety, energy efficiency, reduction of spent nuclear fuel, et
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