Research reactors
Rosatom starts reactor tests in order to increase nuclear fuel enrichment
Russian scientists, for the first time, started reactor testing of nuclear fuel for VVER reactors with its matrix containing neutron absorber erbium and uranium-235 enrichment of about 5%. The irradiation is taking place at the MIR.M1 research reactor at the Dimitrovgrad Research Institute of Nuclear Reactors (a facility of the Scientific Division of Rosatom).
At present, the main fleet of nuclear commercial reactors worldwide operates is running on nuclear fuel with uranium-235 enrichment of less than 5% (mainly in the range of 3%-4.95%), which meets international standards for high capacity reactors fuel (except for fast reactors, small-scale NPPs and research reactors).
CIAE delivers SUT-RR systems and equipment to Thailand
Rosatom manufactures first nuclear fuel for a research reactor in Bolivia
Nuclear fuel for the initial loading of the BRR-1 research reactor, a facility under construction in Bolivia, has been manufactured and passed the acceptance tests at the Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant, an enterprise of Rosatom nuclear fuel division.
The shipment of the fuel bundles to Bolivia is scheduled for 2025.
The first research reactor in Bolivia should become the key facility of the fourth phase of the national Center for nuclear research and technologies in El Alto. The project is under implementation by the Bolivian Atomic Energy Agency in cooperation with Rosatom.
The reactor vessel was delivered from Russia and installed in 2023. It is a pool-type research reactor...
ROSATOM takes part in the Meeting of the Committee on Non-Power Applications of Nuclear Technologies under the IRC MBIR Advisory Board
ROSATOM has finished test assembly of the first research reactor for Bolivia
The CARR reactor is open to foreign customers
The Chinese corporation CNNC has opened the CARR research reactor for projects of foreign companies and specialists.
To date, CARR has received more than 40 applications from abroad. The experiments that the applicants would like to put on are related to the needs of the aerospace and oil industries and to the study of new materials and a number of other areas.
Chinese research institutes and universities are already experimenting on CARR. In total, about 50 Chinese enterprises and organizations received access to the reactor capabilities.
The name CARR stands for China Advanced Research Reactor. The decision to build CARR was made in 1997...
MBIR became a participant of the BRICS GRAIN International Platform
ROSATOM installs vessel of MBIR research reactor in design position
Installing the reactor vessel in its design position is a significant achievement of the work of a large team of like-minded scientists, engineers, designers, and builders. This is an important milestone in the MBIR reactor construction project, bringing us closer to installing reactor equipment and reaching the end of construction, which is already ahead of schedule. This means that we will get an advanced research infrastructure in a shorter amount of time, which will advance the study of two-component nuclear power engineering technology and our efforts to close the fuel cycle; it will help accelerate and justify the creation of safe fourth-generation nuclear power plants, and foster breakthrough research over the next 50 years. MBIR research reactor and PIK reactor are complementary...
TVEL subsidiary contracts supplies of nuclear fuel components for research reactor in Egypt
Prospects for international partnership in the implementation of MBIR reactor project will be discussed within ATOMEXPO-2022
IAEA has published detailed data on 16 research reactors
Specialists of SSC RIAR have successfully completed the modernization of the VK-50 reactor
Framatome reopens fuel manufacturing facility dedicated to TRIGA
TVEL subsidiary contracts supplies of nuclear fuel components for research reactor in Egypt
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