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E-17 (Phoenix KTP-7I) Small Submarine Reactor

OKBM Afrikantov has been attributed as the designer of a small PWR used on the Losharik-class special operations sub. With propulsion power for Losharik cited at about 10,000 shaft horsepower, reactor power of about 52 MWt would be required.

The body of the Project 10831 / 01210 Losharik deepwater station is assembled from high-strength titanium compartments having a spherical shape, in which the bathyscaphe principle is implemented. All compartments of the boat are interconnected by passages and are located inside the light hull. It is believed that one of the spheres of the Losharik deep-sea station is occupied by the E-17 nuclear reactor, designed by JSC Afrikantov OKBM, with a reported power of 52 MWt. The steam generating unit and a turbo gear unit, whose shaft power is 10-15,000 shp. It is reported that the submarine is equipped with one propeller in a special annular cowl. The total displacement of the boat is 2000 tons. The deep-sea station, according to some sources, can dive to a depth of up to 6 thousand meters, and reach a maximum speed of 30 knots.

According to the IAEA definition, the capacity of small reactors is up to 300 MWe. Some Russian developments are the 6-10 MW block-modular AFMM with the Shelf reactor installation and ABV-6E. They plan to place them in isolated and inaccessible territories: in Yakutia, in the Far North, in Central Africa, Canada, island states. OKBM is developing ABV-6E, and NIKIET is developing Shelf. NIKIET (Scientific Research Institute of Energy Engineering) imeni Dollezhal has other promising developments. AFMM “Uniterm-30” - 30 MW of thermal power and 6.6 MW of electricity.

One of the most interesting projects is a nuclear power plant based on the RITM-200 reactor with a capacity of 50 MWt or more. The life of such an ASMM is 60 years, the fuel campaign is six years. The developer, OKBM imeni Afrikantova, plans to prepare project documentation by 2020, and to build the first station by 2027. Four construction sites are considered, the most promising ones are the area of the Suroyamsky iron ore deposit in the Chelyabinsk region and the territory of the Peschanka gold-copper deposit in Chukotka. However, the geography of the market for such AFMMs includes not only remote territories of Russia, but also Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Europe and even Canada. The station is included in the national project "Atomic Science: Engineering and Technology" initiated by Rosatom.

In 2020, the world's first operating floating APEC (nuclear thermal power plant) “Akademik Lomonosov” will land at Bilibino pier. Non-self-propelled vessel with a displacement of 21,500 tons will be equipped with two small reactors KLT-40S developed by OKBM imeni Afrikantova ("Experimental Design Bureau of Mechanical Engineering). Each reactor generates 35 MWe of electric power and 150 MWt (73 Gcal / h) of thermal power, while there is already a ready-made project for equipping the FNPP with a seawater desalination plant with a capacity of up to 100 cubic meters per day. Another feature of KLT-40S is that it is able to operate on a single fuel load for 3 years without a break, for a nuclear power plant this is a rather long fuel cycle.