RUSSIA MAY HAVE BN-800 FAST-NEUTRON REACTOR BY 2012
RIA Novosti
MOSCOW, March 17 (RIA Novosti) - Russia has everything ready for completing by 2012 the construction of the promising fast-neutron reactor BN-800, enabling the use of stockpiled regenerated plutonium. This is reported by director Anatoli Zrodnikov of the State Research Center Physical Energy Institute.
"Fast neutron reactors with liquid metal heat-transfer agents constitute the area where Russia is in the lead", he told the parliamentary hearings On the Legislative Support for Innovative Development of the Nuclear Energy Sector.
As follows from the documents prepared for parliamentary hearings, the study carried out indicates that the BN-800 reactor with the attending fuel cycle can be finalized by 2012.
Construction and start-up of the reactor with uranium-plutonium fuel will preserve the scientific-technical potential and the world leadership in this area, the documents say.
In addition, the motive for an accelerated switchover to closed-fuel cycle power units is the limited supply of developed reserves of uranium in Russia.
A delay in the intensification of work to develop the raw uranium base may entail a crisis in seven to ten years to come, the documents say.
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