NUCLEAR INDUSTRY OF RUSSIA TODAY AND TOMORROW

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15-th Conference of the Pacific Nuclear Society
NUCLEAR INDUSTRY OF RUSSIA TODAY AND TOMORROW
S.I. ANTIPOV NUCLEAR SOCIETY OF RUSSIA
October 15-20, 2006
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Rosatom today
Design institutes
Fundamental science and education
Fuel cycle enterprises
Nuclear industry
Construction abroad and export
Construction
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Technical science and general education

• More than 50 scientific institutions, 10
  industrial educational organizations, including
• 6 state science centers
• 2 federal nuclear centers

Main areas

• Perspective developments in the area of
  fundamental and extreme features of the substance
• Research and developments of the perspective
  power technologies based on the atom nucleus
  energy
• Application research aimed at the improvement of
  the economic features, safety and reliability of
  the developed nuclear energy facilities and the
  fuel cycle technologies
• Scientific research aimed at the identification
  of the growth points and targeted at the
  innovative development beyond the industry tasks
• Training of the high qualification specialists
• Training, continuous training and qualification
  improvement

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DESIGN
There are more than 30 design, development,
technological, research organizations provide

• Development and elaboration of modern designs
  for NPPs and nuclear fuel facilities

• Designs follow-up of the the operating Russian
  NPPs

• Design follow-up during construction of the NPPs
  abroad

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Nuclear fuel cycle
Availability of the national technology from the
uranium mining to the nuclear fuel manufacturing
The NFC enterprises provide nuclear fuel for 31
NPP units in Russia and approximately same number
of the NPPs abroad.
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Construction (today)

• Construction of new nuclear
• power industry facilities

• Construction of the nuclear fuel cycle
• facilities for NW and SNF management

• Upgrading and modernization
• associated with the NPP lifetime extension

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NUCLEAR POWER INDUSTRY OF RUSSIA
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Nuclear power industry

• Rosenergoatom a state power company performing
  the functions of an operating utility and
  managing 10 NPPs of 23,2 GW of installed capacity

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Dynamics of the capacity growth in the former
USSR and Russia
On June 27, 1954 the world commercial nuclear
power plant was started and connected to the grid
in Obninsk with capacity of 5 thousand kW

• It was planned in the former USSR by 2000 to
  construct up to 72 GW of the installed nuclear
  power capacities
• The consequences of the Chernobyl accident led
  to submission and later on to elimination of the
  nuclear construction program in the country
• The first, after over than 10 years of
  stagnation,unit 1 of Rostov NPP was started up
  in 2001.
• Nowadays the installed capacity of the operating
  NPPs in Russia is 23,2 GW

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NPPs of Rosenergoatom
Bilibino
Kola
Leningrad
Kalinin
RBMK-1000 VVER-1000 VVER-440 BN-600 EGP-6
Kursk
Smolensk
Balakovo
Beloyarsk
Volgodonsk
Novovoronezh
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Electricity generation at Russian NPPs in
1992-2005 (forecast for 2006-2010)
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Load and availability factors of Russian NPPs in
1992-2005 (forecast for 2006-2010)
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Trend of operational events at Russian NPPs in
1992-2005
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Trend of the reactor scrams in Russia and
worldwide (according to WANO methodology) in
1992-2005
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Collective irradiation doses at
NPPs (man.Sv/unit)
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Perspectives of nuclear power industry and
nuclear industry development in Russia
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Main legislative documents

• Program of nuclear power industry development in
  the Russian Federation, approved by the
  President of the Russian Federation
• Plan of the first priority activities for
  implementation of Program of nuclear industry
  development in the Russian Federation
• Federal target-oriented program Development of
  nuclear power industry of Russia in 2007-2010 and
  for the perspective up to 2015, approved by the
  Government of the Russian Federation

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Interaction of the state and commercial entities
in the construction of the NPP
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ROSTECHNADZOR
ROSENERGOATOM Operating utility
Generation
Maintenance
Scientific support
NPP General Designer
Reactor General Designer
Scientific Leader
?research instities
Specialized companies
NPP construction and installation companies
NPPs
Technical star-up manager
Design bureaus, reactor design institutes
Design institutes
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Construction and commissioning of the new NPP
units
Rostov NPP, unit 2,VVER-1000
Beloyarsk NPP, unit 4BN-800(880)
Kalinin NPP, unit 4VVER-1000
BELOYARSK 4 The Urals
SMOLENSK 2 1 Center
SMOLENSK2 4 Center
SMOLENSK 2 3 Center
SMOLENSK 2 2Center
LEN 2 1 N-West
LEN 2 2 N-West
LEN 2 3 N-West
LEN 2 4 N-West
Installed capacity by 2020 up to 40 GW
START UP 19,9 GW
KOLA 2 1 N-West
ROSTOV 3 N.Caucasus
N-VOR 2 1 Center
ROSTOV 4 N.Caucasus
KURSK 2 1 Center
N-VOR 2 2 Center
KURSK 2 2 Center
KURSK 2 3 Center
KURSK 2 4 Center
ROSTOV 2 N.Caucasus
KALININ 4 Center
NVOR 4 Center
NVOR 3 Center
KOLA 2 N-West.
LEN 2 N-West
KOLA 1 N-West.
LEN 1 N-West
DECOMMISSIONING 3,7 GW
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NEAR FUTURE OBJECTIVES

• Improvement of the economical efficiency in
  production of electrical and thermal energy under
  condition of safe NPP operation

VVER-1500 (1600)

• Elaboration and demonstration of the improved
  technologies in electricity production, closing
  of the nuclear fuel cycle

KLT-40?
BN-800 (880)

• Development of regional nuclear industry for
  production of heat and electricity, fresh water
  on the basis of small capacity reactor
  installations for North or South regions

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GROWTH OF THE GENERATING CAPACITIES
TW-hr./year
Power industry
NPPs
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TASKS FOR THE INDUSTRY AND CONSTRUCTION COMPLEX

• Orientation of the energy machine-building
  facilities for manufacturing minimum 2 sets of
  equipment annually for the internal market of
  Russia
• Restoration of the construction complex to ensure
  erecting minimum 15 nuclear power units at
  several sites with the pace of commissioning at
  least 2 NPP units annually starting with 2012
• Restoration of the training system for
  construction and installation personnel
• Installation of the advanced construction and
  installation technologies with the purpose to
  improve the construction quality, minimize the
  duration and decrease the costs
• Development of the construction management
  program to address the simultaneous construction
  of 15 NPP units at the territory of the Russian
  Federation

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PERSPECTIVE AREAS IN SCIENTIFIC AND RESEARCH
COMPLEX OF ROSATOM

• The Russian science did not make a mistake in the
  selection of the strategic direction for
  development of the nuclear industry
• The main tasks
• In the fuel supply
• transition from U-235 to U-238 and Th-232, which
  allows to receive practically unlimited stores of
  the raw materials
• Closing of the fuel cycle
• Testing of the technology of water chemical
  treatment for SNF from the uranium reactors with
  separation of the Plutonium and packet of the
  high-active waste
• Demonstration of the pellet-type and
  vibration-packed uranium-plutonium fuel for BN
  reactors
• Commencement of the design and development
  activities in the areas of nitride fuel, dry NW
  reprocessing, young actinides transmutation etc.

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PERSPECTIVE AREAS IN SCIENTIFIC AND RESEARCH
COMPLEX OF ROSATOM

• Main tasks
• In the reactor installations
• next generation of VVER-1100-1200
  VVER-1500-1600
• next technological step BN-800 (880) and
  try-out of the production technologies
• closing of the uranium-plutonium fuel cycle
• Design and development activities (at different
  stages)
• designs of BN-1800, BN-GT and fast reactors with
  heavy metal coolant SVBR, BREST
• other perspective scientific developments

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