Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 19:29:52 +0000
Russia has launched its third cycle of testing innovative uranium-plutonium REMIX fuel at the Balakovo Nuclear Power Plant in Saratov Oblast, a key step that advances the closed nuclear fuel […]
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Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 16:09:00 +0000
Rosatom announced that it has started the fourth irradiation cycle of fuel assemblies with VVER-type fuel rods in the MIR research reactor (Figure 1) at the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors in Dimitrovgrad, Ulyanovsk Region. The reactor tests have been ongoing since early 2019. The rods have four combinations of cladding and fuel matrix materials. […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 13:45:33 +0000
The post MOX Nuclear Fuel Loaded in Russian Reactor, More to Come appeared first on POWER Magazine.
Power plant engineers have loaded 18 mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel assemblies in Unit 4 at the Beloyarsk nuclear power plant in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. Distinct from traditional nuclear fuel with enriched uranium, MOX fuel pellets are based on the mix of nuclear fuel cycle derivatives, such as plutonium oxide bred in commercial reactors and uranium oxide […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:41:56 +0000
The post Russia Completes First-Phase Testing of Nuclear Accident-Tolerant Fuel appeared first on POWER Magazine.
Russia has completed the first phase of nuclear accident-tolerant fuel (ATF) reactor testing at a government research facility. The achievement paves the way for ATF testing at a Russian commercial nuclear plant, which could begin in 2020. TVEL Fuel Co. of Rosatom, a company that provides nuclear fuel to 72 reactors in 14 countries, including […]
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