On a Strategy for the Development of Nuclear Power in Russia

Alekseev, P. N.; Gagarinskii, A. Yu.; Kalugin, M. A.; Kukharkin, N. E.; Semchenkov, Yu. M.; Сидоренко, В. А.; Субботин, С. А.; Teplov, P. S.; Fomichenko, P. A.; Asmolov, V. G.

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“…In Russia, the conversion to a two-component nuclear energy system with thermal and fast reactors and a closed NFC is the strategic goal of Rosatom State Corporation for the coming decades (Alekseev et al 2016(Alekseev et al , 2018(Alekseev et al , 2019(Alekseev et al , 2022 The White Paper of Nuclear Energy 2020; Zrodnikov et al 2020). In this connection, the focus is currently on closing the fuel cycle based on thermal and fast reactors to form a single fuel cycle at a pilot commercial level.…”

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System Features of Fast Sodium Reactors in a Two-Component Structure of Nuclear Power Generating

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The stepwise conversion of Russian nuclear power industry to a two-component nuclear energy system (NES) with thermal and fast reactors in a single closed NFC allows a number of deferred system problems of modern power industry to be solved, such as accumulation of spent fuel from thermal reactors and spent fuel repatriated from foreign Russian-designed NPPs; inefficient use of highly limited raw uranium inventories; recycling of minor actinides and other long-lived high-level waste accumulated in the course of thermal reactors' operation. The paper examines the fundamental capabilities of two-component NES, which appear due to the availability of commercial fast neutron sodium reactors. Due to the synergistic development of thermal and fast reactors, it is expected to achieve an economic effect associated with introduction of new fuel services in the nuclear energy system, such as production of plutonium and improvement of its isotopic composition for thermal reactors, transmutation of "external" minor actinides, production of isotopes for various purposes, production of hydrogen, etc. The expansion of Russia's export opportunities is also being considered, it can be done through fuel supply for both power units built in compliance with Russian technologies and foreign power units with MOX fuel. In this approach, it is important to analyze the economy of the whole system, where fast reactors, due to their inherent surplus of neutrons, perform the functions required to the entire NES, rather than to analyze the technical and economic indicators of individual reactors. The article makes a preliminary technical and economic assessment of such system functions provided by fast sodium reactors. It is shown that fast and thermal reactors operating together in a two-component nuclear energy system, with the same electrical power and similar technical and economic indicators, can significantly reduce the necessary infrastructure costs and/or generate additional income, thereby reducing the specific levelized cost of electricity production.

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System Features of Fast Sodium Reactors in a Two-Component Structure of Nuclear Power Generating

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“…A waiting list of promising reactor technologies was formulated in the experts' community has developed a common vision of the "waiting list" for promising reactor technologies [4]. At the same time, the characteristics of the development of nuclear energy other than the fuel supply, such as expanding the power range to diversify customers, non-electric use of nuclear energy, and others, are considered in a fragmented manner in Strategy-2018.…”

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New Stage in Russia’s Nuclear Energy Strategy

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This article discusses a technological platform of nuclear energy for implementing the proposed Atomic Project 2.0 which is focused on the country’s objectives in sustainable development, including the development of advanced innovative technologies and materials, and producing examples of new equipment. The basis of modern nuclear power in Russia and the world is water-cooled pressurized reactors with capacity 1000 MW or more, and there are no objective prerequisites for changing this paradigm in the foreseeable future. In this connection, VVER technology remains the most important tool for achieving the strategic goals of our country in the field of nuclear energy. The existing strategic plans relegate extensive adoption of fast reactors and NFC closure based on them to the 2030s, which can be viewed as the customary maximalism in the face of the current moderate notions concerning growing demand for nuclear generation. The prospects for the introduction of small and medium-sized nuclear power plants, taking into account the forecasted demand for electricity and the territorial distribution of generation in Russia, as well as the opportunities for foreign business, promise a new quality of nuclear energy production and a fundamentally different niche in the energy basket. Perhaps the strongest indication of the current stage of progress in nuclear energy is a resurgence of expansion into new areas of energy consumption. It must be assumed that a version of the nuclear energy strategy worthy of presentation in Atomic Project 2.0 will incorporate development of directions of heat supply, hydrogen production, and seawater desalination by means of nuclear technologies for the home and international markets, as well as promising areas such as molten-salt nuclear technologies or hybrid systems.

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