SEVERSK, Tomsk Region, Jun 8 (PRIME) -- Russian state nuclear power corporation Rosatom on Tuesday started construction of the world’s first new generation nuclear power unit BREST-OD-300.
The unit will operate a 300-megawatt (MW) prototype fast-neutron reactor with lead reactor coolants. The reactor will be safe, environmentally-friendly, resource-conserving, and competitive. The technologies used in construction of the reactor eliminate the accidents similar to the Chernobyl and Fukushima ones.
Besides the BREST reactor, Rosatom’s pilot project and a demonstration power plant will include a facility for production of mixed nitride uranium-plutonium fuel for reactors, and a facility for spent nuclear fuel reprocessing.
Rosatom wants to launch the plant in the second half of 2020s.
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