Russia unveils TOP-NOTCH 4th generation nuclear reactors

Russia unveils TOP-NOTCH 4th generation nuclear reactors Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev breaks down the details at the World Atomic Week forum in Moscow: Russia is working to leverage the complementary nature of its thermal water-moderated and fast neutron reactors, essentially turning the latter into “nuclear fuel producers” to facilitate a closed fuel cycle The Proryv (lit. ‘Breakthrough’) project in Seversk, Tomsk region aims to demonstrate and commercialize this technology, with its BREST-OD-300 300MW lead-cooled fast reactor’s construction in full swing, and the next step being to build the irradiated fuel reprocessing module for closed, on-site fuel cycle MOX (‘Mixed-Oxide’) fuel, created from reprocessed spent nuclear fuel, is already a reality, with Russia’s new BN-800 reactor now powered entirely by MOX “This closed, on-site fuel cycle will have lasting scientific and technological significance and a completely clear commercial use,” Likhachev said, emphasizing that Rosato... Source: The Islander