{"id":11969,"date":"2017-03-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vo.afonico-test.ru\/novosti-otrasli\/russia-starts-to-build-mbir-vessel\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T14:14:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:14:30","slug":"russia-starts-to-build-mbir-vessel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/novosti-otrasli\/russia-starts-to-build-mbir-vessel\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia starts to build MBIR vessel"},"content":{"rendered":"

AEM-Technology has started the manufacture of the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) for MBIR\u00a0\u2014 the multipurpose sodium-cooled fast neutron research reactor that is under construction at the site of the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors (NIIAR) at Dmitrovgrad, which is in Russia\u2019s Ulyanovsk region. AEM-Technology is part of Atomenergomash, itself a subsidiary of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The MBIR is a 150\u00a0MWt, sodium-cooled fast reactor and will have a design life of up to 50\u00a0years. It will be a multi-loop research reactor capable of testing lead, lead-bismuth and gas coolants, and running on MOX (mixed uranium and plutonium oxide) fuel. NIIAR intends to set up on-site closed fuel cycle facilities for the MBIR, using pyrochemical reprocessing it has developed at pilot scale.<\/p>\n

AEM Technology said today that work on welding the upper part of the RPV had started at the production site of heavy machine-building company Atommash, which is another Rosatom subsidiary.<\/p>\n

The completed RPV will weigh 83\u00a0tonnes, be more than 12\u00a0metres long and be 4\u00a0metres in diameter, according to the company statement. AEM-Technology will produce a total of 14\u00a0pieces of equipment and supporting structures for MBIR, weighing more than 360\u00a0tonnes, it added.<\/p>\n

\u201cMBIR will demonstrate our company\u2019s technological ability\u201d, Vitaly Shishov, head of production at AEM-Technology\u2019s Volgodonsk site, said in the same company statement. \u201cMBIR is a fundamentally new project that presents us with serious work to do,\u201d he said, \u201cboth in terms of the quality of the equipment and in the organisation of our production operations\u201d.<\/p>\n

AEM Technology has said previously that construction of the demonstration reactor should be completed by 2020.<\/p>\n

Rosatom launched a tender for the design, manufacture and supply of the components in late December 2013. AEM-Technology was awarded the contract to supply the RPV and its cap, together with the core internals for the sodium-cooled MBIR. The vessel will be enclosed within a safety container in case of sodium loss.<\/p>\n

The MBIR project is to be open to foreign collaboration, in connection with the International Atomic Energy Agency\u2019s International Project on Innovative Nuclear Reactors and Fuel Cycles (INPRO).<\/p>\n

The MBIR will replace the BOR-60\u00a0experimental fast reactor that has been in operation at NIIAR\u2019s site since 1969.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AEM-Technology has started the manufacture of the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) for MBIR\u00a0\u2014 the multipurpose sodium-cooled fast neutron research reactor that is under construction at the site of the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors (NIIAR) at Dmitrovgrad, which is in Russia\u2019s Ulyanovsk region. AEM-Technology is part of Atomenergomash, itself a subsidiary of Russian state nuclear…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/11969"}],"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=11969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16279,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11969\/revisions\/16279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11969"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}