Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation and En+ Group established a joint venture OAO AKME-engineering.<\/p>\n
The 50\/50\u00a0JV will design and produce a prototype 100\u00a0MW lead-bismuth fast reactor (SVBR-100) with a view of commercializing the technology.<\/p>\n
SVBR-100\u00a0is being developed at the enterprises owned by Rosatom. The JV\u2019s short-term plans include completing the RND for the project and producing a detailed design of the pilot reactor and principal equipment and also obtaining necessary licenses. A pilot power generating unit based on SVBR-100\u00a0technology is scheduled to be commissioned around 2019.<\/p>\n
Nuclear power plants with SVBR reactors may be crucial for providing power to remote and detached regional consumers; this technology could be installed in mobile (floating) nuclear power plants complemented by sea water conversion units. Besides, the fast reactor technology could make an important contribution to the nuclear generation resource base.<\/p>\n
Lead bismuth cooled reactor technology has been used in nuclear submarines and has proved to be safe and efficient.<\/p>\n
Preliminary estimates show that the large-scale production of the new type reactors could make the specific Capex for constructing 1\u00a0kW of a nuclear power plant comparable to that for constructing 1\u00a0kW of a coal fired power plant, which will make it one of the lowest-cost plants in the power generation industry\u00a0\u2014 and there will be zero greenhouse gas emission.<\/p>\n
IAEA\u2019s estimates show that some 500\u20131000\u00a0power generating units based on small-to-medium reactors can be launched in the period till 2040. The SVBR technology could account for 10% to 15% of the global nuclear power market of small-to-medium capacity.<\/p>\n
\u201c<\/strong>This is a pilot high-tech project to be implemented by the Rosatom State Corporation and a Russian private entity on a 50\/50\u00a0basis. We think it\u2019s an opportunity for us to use the huge groundwork we\u2019ve done in the field of fast reactors and make it a commercialized and competitive product. We\u2019re glad to see private investors in this country, who take the long view amid the economic crisis and who are ready to invest into new technologies that can take a significant share of the global market, once the crisis is over. We expect the government to provide a strong support of this high-tech project implementation. It will be put on the list of the projects under the aegis of the RF President\u2019s Commission For Long-Term Development\u201d, Rosatom Deputy Director General Peter Shchedrovitskiy said.<\/p>\n En+ Group CEO Vladislav Soloviev commented: \u201c<\/strong>High-tech power generation projects and designs are the priority investment targets for En+ Group and EuroSibEnergo. We believe that the development of the nuclear power industry is one of the most promising ways to meet the rising demand for energy, with the lowest environmental impact in mind\u201d.<\/p>\n En+ Group\u2019s strategy is to focus on businesses which extract raw materials for energy production, generate electricity and produce non-ferrous metals. En+ Group holds the controlling stake in United Company RUSAL, the world\u2019s largest producer of aluminium and alumina; En+ Group owns EuroSibEnergo, the largest private energy company in Russia, and a number of oil and gas assets, and coal assets. En+ Group companies produce about 11% of the world\u2019s aluminium and 13% of its alumina, 9% of electric power and 5% of the Russia\u2019s coal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation and En+ Group established a joint venture OAO AKME-engineering. The 50\/50\u00a0JV will design and produce a prototype 100\u00a0MW lead-bismuth fast reactor (SVBR-100) with a view of commercializing the technology. SVBR-100\u00a0is being developed at the enterprises owned by Rosatom. The JV\u2019s short-term plans include completing the RND for the project and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.10.5","language":"en","enabled_languages":["ru","en"],"languages":{"ru":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11534"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}