PO Mayak wants to build a MOX fuel fabrication facility that would provide fuel for the BN-800 reactor. Although Rosatom has not approved the idea yet, Mayak already came up with an estimate - the facility that would produce about...
June 2008 Archives
Rosatom announced that it completed fuel delivery to Kudankulam for the first of the two nuclear power reactors that are under construction there. The first shipment took place on May 25, 2008....
On June 5, 2008, Russia shut down the ADE-5 plutonium production reactor at the Siberian Chemical Combine, ending plutonium production in Seversk/Tomsk-7. The other plutonium production reactor in Seversk - ADE-4 - was shut down on April 20, 2008. The...
Rostekhnadzor initiated an environmental impact assessment of a project to remove spent fuel of the IRT-2000 research reactor from Bulgaria. The fuel will be taken to Mayak, where it will be reprocessed. Fresh HEU fuel was removed from the IRT-2000...
Rosatom reports today that three fuel shipments have been delivered to the Kudankulam nuclear power station. The first shipment was reported to take place on May 25, 2008.The initial fuel delivery will provide fuel for startup of the reactor and...