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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%...

Alexey Likhachev attended the launching ceremony of Chukotka nuclear icebreaker

Alexey Likhachev, the head of ROSATOM, attended the launching ceremony of the fourth serial nuclear icebreaker, Chikotka, at USC Baltic Shipyard JSC in St...

BRICS Industry Companies Supported Creation of Nuclear Energy Alliance

Top executives of the largest nuclear companies and organizations from BRICS+ member states, including Russia, China, South Africa, Brazil, Iran, Ethiopia, and Bolivia, held the first meeting within the framework of the Nuclear Energy Platform being created...

Pietro Barabaschi visited Russian institutes

Pietro Barabaschi, Director-General of the ITER International Organization, reviewed the process of development and manufacturing of key Russian systems for the international thermonuclear reactor in St...

Rosatom starts afterburning of minor actinides in a fast reactor

ROSATOM takes part in the XXVII St. Petersburg International Economic Forum

Forum ATOMEXPO-2024 became a record-breaking event in number of participating countries and signed agreements

Main construction stage started at Leningrad NPP Unit 7

World’s only operational floating nuclear power plant generates 978 million kWh of electricity in five years

Rosatom manufactures nitride and oxide uranium-plutonium fuels for the BN-1200 fast reactor

Rostov NPP fulfilled the state task of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia on electricity generation ahead of schedule

Nuclear icebreaker Yakutia has completed the stage of factory sea trials

Rwanda relies on Russia to train nuclear specialists - Minister

Transfer of Zaporozhye NPP units to hot shutdown mode is not planned yet

IAEA is ready to send its specialists to the Kursk NPP, if necessary - Grossi

Sergey Ryabkov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, and Nikolay Spassky, Deputy Director General of ROSATOM, held consultations with the IAEA delegation

IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi visits Kursk NPP

Energy exports from Russia to China increased to USD46 billion in the first half of 2024 - Sechin

Fuel loading at the first unit of Kursk NPP-2 is scheduled for November 2024

Theoretical ban on the sale of uranium in the United States will not cause problems for Russia - Likhachev

Beloyarsk NPP actively attracts young specialists

The next rotation of the IAEA mission observers took place at the Zaporozhye NPP

IAEA Board of Governors will hold an extraordinary meeting due to the attacks on the Zaporozhye NPP

415 nuclear units are operating in the world, 58 units are under construction

International graduates of Russian universities gathered at ATOMEXPO

ROSATOM starts testing of unique equipment for BREST-OD-300 nitride fuel fabrication

Another round of interdepartmental consultations between Russia and the IAEA takes place in Sochi

ROSATOM will be the general partner of the World Youth Festival in 2024

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Reactor pressure vessel of Xudapu NPP Unit 4 has been installed in design position

VVER-1200 reactor is a cylindrical vessel with an elliptical bottom, inside which there is the core and the internals. The length of the equipment is 13 meters, the diameter is 4.5 meters, and the weight is 320 tons.

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Rosatom
Pietro Barabaschi held a meeting with the management of the Institute and saw around the facilities for high-tech components manufacturing of the future plant.

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the 400-ton toroidal field coil TF08 of the ITER was successfully hoisted onto the sub-assembly of the Vacuum Vessel Module 1, marking another milestone in the sector module sub-assembly (SMSA).