Depleted uranium hexafluoride (ollu) does not apply to radioactive waste, and is a valuable raw material necessary for the development of not only nuclear energy but also other industries, its processing in Russia is legal, safe, and expedient – such evidential conclusion is contained in the joint report of the Commission on ecology of the Public Council of Rosatom state Corporation, environmental and legal center "Bellona".
The presentation took place on Wednesday via videoconference. The report is available at the disposal of RIA Novosti.
Specialists of the Russian nuclear industry began the practical implementation of the project on creation in Russia of a modern plant for the production of radiopharmaceutical drugs for the targeted treatment of various forms of cancer, reported the press service of the designer of the future production of JSC "Central design and technological Institute" (tisc, includes fuel company of Rosatom TVEL).
We are talking about the creation of the production of radiopharmaceuticals in accordance with international standards for production and quality control of pharmaceuticals GMP (good manufacturing practice). The plant will be built on the premises of Rosatom "Scientific research physics and chemical Institute named Karpov" in Obninsk (Kaluga region). "The launch is planned for 2024," - said in the message.
The situation with coronavirus infection has not violated the terms of the enterprise of Rosatom state Corporation "Mining and chemical combine" (MCC, Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai) for the industrial production of so-called mixed oxide uranium-plutonium MOX-fuel is planned to be used in the nuclear energy future, reported the press service of the MCC.
According to the report, in the first half of this year, despite COVID-19, "all production plans are achieved". "It is particularly important that the plant fuel fabrication did a half for the production of fuel assemblies of MOX fuel", - is spoken in the message.
Uranium mining company Khiagda (included in the mining division of Rosatom state Corporation holding ARMZ) plans in 2023 to begin uranium mining at Wybranska Deposit in Buryatia, the Agency has coordinated a technical project of field development, reported the press service of "Heidi".
"Construction of the infrastructure and prepare the field for development is scheduled for 2022, the start of mining operations on 2023", - stated in the message.
The cost of one launch of the carrier rocket from the cosmodrome "Sea launch" is estimated to be worth 3.8 to 5 billion rubles, according to the materials of the experts of "Rosatom", compiled by courtesy of "Roscosmos" data that was read by RIA Novosti.
Earlier it was reported about the possible purchase of a complex of the state Corporation "Rosatom".
Enterprise of Rosatom state Corporation "State research center of Russian Federation "Troitsk Institute of innovative and thermonuclear research" (TRINITY) ordered work on the selection of equipment for testing of the prototype space plasma rocket engine, to be of open materials on the procurement website.
Plasma engine — a kind of electric rocket engine (ERD), the consumable substance which is accelerated in the plasma state (ionized gas). Unlike liquid engines, the systems are not designed for output loads into orbit, because they can only work in a vacuum and are now used, for example, to keep the satellites on the so-called point of standing. In addition, by reducing the reserves of the working fluid at a relatively high speed of expiration, they are considered as a possible way to make fast space travel.
Laboratory models of new, so-called ion and hall thruster engines for space are scheduled to pass this year at the request of the enterprise of Rosatom "State research center of Russian Federation "Troitsk Institute of innovative and thermonuclear research" (TRINITY), which was organized tenders, should open materials on the procurement website.
As noted in the specifications for this work, in many countries the problems of creation of automatic and manned interplanetary vehicles with electric rocket propulsion systems (EPS) high power (over 100 kW). At the present time, there is a practical development on nuclear reactors for space-based megawatt class, which can provide the energy these engines are recalled in the terms of reference. Ordered TRINITY's work is aimed at creating laboratory models of ion and hall thruster engine of new generation with improved characteristics, which will be the basis for creating a clustered ERD high power.
Parameters and sources of annual funding for a large-scale project of the state Corporation "Rosatom" on creation of domestic quantum computer agreed in full, approval of the relevant road map is expected in July of this year, told RIA Novosti in the Department of communications of "Rosatom".
Earlier, the Ministry of communications has proposed to halve the amount of state support direction of "Quantum computing" in 2020, transferring the funds to 2022. In early June, Rosatom sent a core working group ANO "Digital economy" opinion, which stated that this reduction will lead to what to create in Russia a 100-Kubany quantum computer by 2024 will not happen - that in 2020 we need to buy laboratory equipment to perform any further work.
Concern Rosenergoatom (the operator of all nuclear power plants in Russia, included in the state Corporation "Rosatom") denied reports by several foreign media, including the Ukrainian, about the incident at unit 2 of the Leningrad nuclear power plant.
According to these publications, supposedly last Saturday in the turbine building of the second unit of LNPP radioactive steam.
The proposal of the Ministry of communications of the Russian Federation to reduce by 50% of state funding for the development of quantum computing in 2020 may adversely affect plans to create a quantum computer by 2024, as the current year is planned to purchase equipment necessary to 4.7 billion rubles, said at the disposal of RIA Novosti the opinion of Rosatom.
The opinion of Rosatom was sent to the relevant working group ANO "Digital economy" on 3 June. He refers to the proposal of the Ministry on updating passports of the Federal project "Digital technology": the Agency is particularly proposes to reduce by 50% the amount of state support direction of "Quantum computing" in 2020, with the transfer of the funds in 2022.
The famous pilot plant U-5 in Moscow, which worked out the technologies of plutonium required to create a domestic nuclear weapons will be decommissioned by 2022, the works are scheduled to use new technologies that can be applied in similar projects in the future, according to the portal of the Federal target program on nuclear and radiation safety.
Install the U-5 is located in the North-West of Moscow on the territory of "high-tech research Institute of inorganic materials named after academician Bochvar" (VNIINM, a part of TVEL, a leading scientific center of Rosatom on the development of nuclear fuel cycle technologies and materials science).
United shipbuilding Corporation could upgrade floating cosmodrome "Sea launch", the required technology has been gained, said the General Director of the USC Alexey Rakhmanov.
"Sea launch", if we will allow him to finish - the Americans, you know, put a bunch of restrictions on its use and its capabilities. It seems to me that we have so far many have been able to develop naval technologies that the organization runs with this platform or something like that this platform would be quite a good element in the development of our space capabilities," he told reporters.
Engineering companies of Rosatom has completed production of a set of steam generators for construction with participation of RF first power unit of NPP "Akkuyu" in Turkey, the press service of the holding "Atomenergomash".
The steam generators belong to the basic equipment of the reactor compartment of nuclear power. They are needed to produce steam that drives a turbine generator work. The steam generators are part of the reactor plant. The length of one steam generator is about 15 meters, diameter – more than 4 meters, weight – 340 tons. The equipment of one plant consists of four steam generators.
Head nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika (project 22220) will be handed over in 2020 to the customer in the face of Rosatom in trial operation for one year, so that in 2021 the ship stood in dry docking to replace the right motor, told RIA Novosti on Monday the head of the United shipbuilding Corporation Alexey Rakhmanov.
Earlier in June, the General Director of Rosatom state Corporation Alexey Likhachev, during his working meeting with President of Russia Vladimir Putin said that the icebreaker "Arktika" on June 23, came from St. Petersburg on the final stage of sea trials. It is planned that the icebreaker in September, the deadline is in October of this year will be commissioned Rosatom.
Rosatom began construction of unit 2 of NPP "Akkuyu" in Turkey, told RIA Novosti in the project company "Akkuyu Nuclear", which is responsible for the implementation of this project.
As noted by the head of the company Anastasia Zoteeva, construction and installation works are now conducted simultaneously at the sites of the first and second units. "In the second block completes concreting of both base plates and the reactor compartment and the turbine hall," said she.
No deviations from safe operation conditions in nuclear power plants in Northwest Russia in June was not a radiation environment consistent with normal values reported RIA Novosti, the official representative of the concern "Rosenergoatom" (the operator of all nuclear power plants in the Russian Federation, member of the state Corporation "Rosatom").
Earlier on Friday, some media reported that in early June, the authorities of nuclear and radiation safety in Sweden, Norway and Finland recorded in the atmosphere over the territory of Northern Europe a slight increase in the concentrations of radioactive isotopes with so-called reactor origin. It was also reported that, according to calculations by the National institutes of health and the environment (RIVM) of the Netherlands, these isotopes allegedly received from Russia, and that the cause of the incident may be the depressurization of the fuel element in a reactor of any nuclear power plant.
The concealment of one of the participants in the construction of Kursk NPP-2 the fact of its disease coronavirus infection has led to the fact that the quarantine had to send almost 300 people, is an outrage, said General Director of Rosatom state Corporation Alexey Likhachev.
"The worker of one of our contractors on the construction site of the Kursk NPP-2 ill. Two days went to work with temperature, masking the disease and by taking antipyretics, and then called in sick, stayed in a hostel, but was not isolated. And there has infected 27 people, eight of them were hospitalized", - said Likhachev in his video message to the employees of the nuclear industry of the Russian Federation.
Russian NPP started the gradual lifting of restrictions which were introduced in April this year on the background of the situation with coronavirus infection, said Tuesday the Department of communication of JSC "concern Rosenergoatom" (which is included in the electric power division of Rosatom).
The corresponding order was signed on 23 June 2020, the General Director of "Rosenergoatom" Andrei Petrov.
The project "Sea launch" without government support will not reach self-sufficiency even in the optimistic scenario – high demand for launch services, according to the materials of the experts of "Rosatom", compiled by courtesy of "Roscosmos" data that was read by RIA Novosti.
Earlier it was reported about the possible purchase of a complex of the state Corporation "Rosatom".
Reactor tests have confirmed the safety of the Russian promising mixed nitride uranium-plutonium (SNOOP) fuel for nuclear power reactors on fast neutrons, said special representative of Rosatom for international and scientific-technical projects, head of project direction "Breakthrough" Vyacheslav Pershukov.
"Tests of experimental batches are good: irradiated more than one thousand fuel rods (fuel elements - ed.), burnout is more than 8 %, no cases of leakage," - said Pershukov published on Monday an interview with the official newspaper of the Russian nuclear industry newspaper "Rosatom Country". No cases of depressurization means preserving the integrity of shell of fuel elements, which is one of the barriers the safety of nuclear power plants.
The principles of lean production, long time working at the enterprises of the Russian nuclear industry, helped to combat the spread of coronavirus infection on objects of "Rosatom", in particular, on the plants of the nuclear fuel cycle, said Director of development production system "Rosatom" Sergey carts.
"We are in the "Rosatom" did not stop any construction, any production, of course, the maximum saving people," - said the convoys on Friday during the meeting in a videoconference mode of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin with representatives of various sectors of the economy, faced with the consequences COVID-19.
Russian head versatile atomic icebreaker "Arktika" is expected to be commissioned in the state Corporation "Rosatom" in the autumn of this year, said General Director of Rosatom Alexey Likhachev.
Deadlines for "Arctic" Rosatom were previously delayed - if it was originally scheduled for may-June of 2019, then it was decided to take the icebreaker in may 2020. "Arctic" can be commissioned Rosatom with the faulty propeller motor that has failed due to short circuit and which is planned to replace the dock Kronstadt naval plant (part of USC) in 2021, wrote in March this year, the newspaper "Kommersant" with reference to sources.
Russian President Vladimir Putin urged Rosatom to ensure the safety in siting data centers in the territories of nuclear power plants.
During the working meeting, the head of Rosatom Alexey Likhachev informed the President that the company, together with Rostelecom has launched in the past year, the largest data processing center (DPC) in Europe. He noted that there is the idea of such centres to place on the territories of nuclear power plants.
The cost of recovery of the complex "Sea launch" will amount to 84 billion rubles in prices of 2020, which exceeds the cost of its purchase group S7 in 2016, almost eight times, considered in the "Rosatom".
"The volume of investment of 91 billion rubles in the forecast prices adjusted for inflation or 83.8 billion rubles in prices of 2020", - stated in the materials of the experts of "Rosatom", compiled by courtesy of "Roscosmos" data that was read by RIA Novosti.
The state Corporation "Rosatom" do not buy "Sea launch" in connection with the lack of missiles for the complex and the lack of a long-term strategy of its application, said RIA Novosti member of the Russian Academy of cosmonautics named after Tsiolkovsky, chief analyst of the Association "Digital transport and logistics" Andrei Ionin.
According to him, an example of a successful long-term prediction of market development is the story of SpaceX. "That's why Elon Musk became the leader of the space market, because in the early 2000-ies he foresaw many of the events including the advent of space-based Internet, with the development of the lunar program of the USA on the basis of which he will make major money," said Jonas.
Rosatom considers it inappropriate purchase of the complex "Sea launch" in the absence of such requirements for corporations, high competition in the launch services market, created the company SpaceX Elon musk, and a number of other reasons. This is stated in the materials of "Rosatom", which examined RIA Novosti.
Earlier some media reported that Rosatom is considering the acquisition of complex "Sea launch", which was recently relocated from the USA to Russia. Currently, the owner is a group of companies S7. For purchasing Sea launch from subsidiaries of Rocket-space Corporation "Energy" (part of "Rosatom") she at one time paid 150 million dollars.
Rosatom officially launched the implementation of the Russian project on creation of a unique nuclear reactor to test the technology, "burning" the most dangerous radioactive substances that remain after processing of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) of nuclear power plants, the corresponding order was signed by General Director of Rosatom Alexey Likhachev.
About it reported the edition enterprise Rosatom "Mining and chemical combine" (Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk region) newspaper "the Bulletin of the MCC". On this enterprise it is planned to build a new reactor.
Launch date of the first unit of the Belarusian nuclear power plant will be determined later in the week, the parties expect that it was fully operational in February 2021, said the Ambassador of Belarus in Moscow Vladimir Semashko.
"In unit 1 we are here just a week together with colleagues from the leadership of Rosatom will decide the specific date of physical start - up," Semashko said during an online conference.
The draft program for development of nuclear energy on behalf of the Prime Minister of Russia Mikhail mishustina will be finalized and submitted to the government before 1 July, the press service of the Cabinet.
It is reported that on June 8 Mishustin held a meeting to discuss the draft of the comprehensive programme "Development of equipment, technologies and scientific research in the field of nuclear energy," which covers the period up to 2024.
A quantum computer created in Russia with the participation of Rosatom, will help not only in the main activities of the nuclear state Corporation, but also to develop its new business direction - from creating new materials to address the challenging logistics of the Northern sea route, said the Director of the digitization of "Rosatom" Ekaterina Solntseva.
Last week began a series of discussions "quantum future", organized by "Rosatom", Russian quantum center and Fund "Recongress". In these events, world leaders quantum racing will discuss how quantum technology can change everyday life by simplifying logistics processes and the emergence of new durable and light materials before the revolution in healthcare and increase life expectancy.
The construction of the center for nuclear research and technologies (CAIT) of Rosatom in Bolivia is suspended due to a pandemic coronavirus, the government of the Latin American countries is positively set to continue working with Russia, told RIA Novosti the Russian Ambassador in Bolivia, Vladimir Sprinchan.
The Bolivian Agency for nuclear energy (ABEN) on 12 February issued a statement that the government suspends the project for the construction of the center as long as the Parliament and the Prosecutor's office "will not speak on this issue." However, a month later, the Bolivian government and Rosatom announced that CAIT in El Alto, scheduled to open in 2023, will be completed on time and open the Bolivians access to technology for the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
Experts from leading scientific centers of the state Corporation "Rosatom" physics and energy Institute named after Leypunsky (IPPE, Obninsk, Kaluga region) intend this year to test unparalleled in the world of complex for producing radioactive isotope actinium-225, which is believed will determine the future of nuclear medicine.
This was stated by the Director, FEI Andrew Goverdovsky in an interview to the official edition of the Russian nuclear industry newspaper "Rosatom Country".
Experts from leading scientific centers of the state Corporation "Rosatom" physics and energy Institute named after Leypunsky (IPPE, Obninsk, Kaluga region) developed an unusual approach to the treatment of coronavirus infection through disinfection light by ultraviolet light.
This was stated by the Director, FEI Andrew Goverdovsky in an interview to the official edition of the Russian nuclear industry newspaper "Rosatom Country".
Rosatom and the U.S. Department of energy last year signed a document establishing the procedure of accounting for and control of nuclear materials to be processed in Russia under contracts with third countries, including in the interests of American customers.
This is stated in the annual report of JSC "Atomenergoprom" (part of "Rosatom", consolidates civil assets of Russian nuclear industry).
A member of the Egyptian branch of the engineering division of Rosatom state Corporation (a General contractor for the construction of the first NPP Egypt "the El-Dabaa") contracted the coronavirus, he is treated in hospital, told RIA Novosti the representative of "Rosatom".
That among workers of the nuclear industry identified one case of infection COVID-19 in Egypt, previously announced by Director General of Rosatom Alexey Likhachev.
Iran is able to provide itself with nuclear fuel and without Russia, said the official representative of the organization of atomic energy of Iran (AEOI) behrouz of Kamalvandi.
At the end of April from Russia on the site of the Bushehr nuclear power plant was delivered a fresh batch of nuclear fuel required for the further successful functioning of the reactor.
