development of a new technological platform of nuclear industry unparalleled anywhere in the world with in “Breakthrough” project
“Breakthrough” project is a main innovative project in the global nuclear power industry implemented in Russia. It envisages the development of a new nuclear industry technology platform based on a closed nuclear fuel cycle with fast reactors. Such technology will allow to exclude serious accidents at nuclear power plants, enables to generate electricity without accumulating irradiated nuclear fuel and reuse spent nuclear fuel (SNF) multiple times, which will eliminate the problem of the limited resource base of nuclear power industry.
More than 30 organizations of State Corporation Rosatom participate in the implementation of “Breakthrough” project.
The Experimental and Demonstration Energy Center (EDEC) is established within the framework of “Breakthrough” project on the site of Siberian Chemical Combine, a subsidiary of Fuel Company TVEL.
More than 30 organizations of State Corporation Rosatom participate in the implementation of “Breakthrough” project .
The Experimental and Demonstration Energy Center (EDEC) is established within the framework of “Breakthrough” project on the site of Siberian Chemical Combine, a subsidiary of Fuel Company TVEL.
The Experimental and Demonstration Energy Center
consists of a nuclear unit equipped with lead-cooled BREST-OD-300, and a terminal plant, which includes a module for reprocessing of irradiated mixed uranium-plutonium (nitride) fuel and a fabrication/re-fabrication module for fabrication of starting a degraded from imported materials, and further on - the fuel elements made of recycled irradiated nuclear fuel. EDEC is intended to demonstrate the sustainable operation of the facilities that ensure the closing of the nuclear fuel cycle for the first time in the world. The accommodation within the same site of the reactor and of nuclear fuel fabrication plants allows to verify the technology of "short fuel cycle" in the shortest possible time.
Such fuel cycle is provided with common radioactive waste management system (RAS). The fabrication plant became the world first producer of mixed nitride fuel on the basis of reactor-grade plutonium and depleted uranium.
In 2021, the construction and installation companies will construct 165 km of power transmission lines, install ventilation system in the area of about 8 thousand sq.m., perform the installation of 450 tonnes of process equipment.