Nuclear News Ticker - November 15, 2020

AtomInfo.Ru, PUBLISHED 16.11.2020

ZiO-Podolsk has started the first main stage of production of the first vessel of the RITM-200 reactor unit for the fourth nuclear icebreaker Yakutia.

Petrozavodsk branch of AEM-technologies made the first complete shipment of equipment for unit 1 of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant (Turkey).

The Siberian Chemical Combine has produced more than 1,000 experimental fuel rods based on the uranium nitride fuel over the eight years of its participation in the "Breakthrough" project. In order to find and justify the optimal configuration, the fuel rods with different sizes and construction materials were produced.

Topics: Nuclear ships, NPP Akkuyu, Nitride fuel, Nuclear News Tickers

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