Russian government will give Rosatom 1 trillion rubles ($42.7 billion) in the next seven years (until 2015) for the program of expansion of nuclear power and development of the industry. Rosatom will add to that more that 1 trillion rubles...
July 2008 Archives
While Russia has been working conversion of Soviet-built research reactors abroad to LEU fuel, no reactors in Russia have been converted so far. This may change soon - Russia agreed to begin feasibility studies of conversion of six of its...
NNSA announced that all HEU fuel has been removed from Bulgaria after a shipment of 6.3 kg of spent fuel of the IRT-2000 research reactor to Russia. The shipment used three VPVR/M specialized transportation casks. The fuel was delivered to...
Reliable sources told me that the three ADE plutonium production reactors that are being shut down, have produced 18 tonnes of weapon-grade plutonium since 1994, when Russia committed to not using this material in its weapons program and began storing...
According a NNSA representative, NNSA is planning to remove HEU fuel from the research reactor in Hungary in FY 2008. As far as I can tell, the reactor in question is VVR-SM in Budapest. It is likely that fresh fuel...
According to the original plan, the last remaining Russian plutonium production reactor, ADE-2, was scheduled to shut down in 2010. However, NNSA believes that the reactor could be shut down earlier - in the fall of 2009....
Director of the PO Mayak, Sergei Baranov, announced the plan to build new reprocessing facilities that would allow Mayak to reprocess VVER-1000 fuel as well as "any other Russian or foreign fuel" and "Soviet legacy fuel". Currently Mayak has two...