BN-800 reactor
Russian fast breeder nuclear reactor, operating since 2016 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The BN-800 reactor (Russian: реактор БН–800) is a sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor, built at the Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Station, in Zarechny, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. The reactor is designed to generate 880 MW of electrical power. The plant was considered part of the weapons-grade Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement signed between the United States and Russia. The reactor is part of the final step for a plutonium-burner core (a core designed to burn and, in the process, destroy, and recover energy from, plutonium) [2] The plant reached its full power production in August 2016.[3] According to Russian business journal Kommersant, the BN-800 project cost 140.6 billion rubles (roughly 2.17 billion dollars).[4]
BN-800 | |
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Generation | Generation III+[1] |
Reactor concept | Fast breeder reactor |
Status | Operational |
Location | Zarechny, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia |
Main parameters of the reactor core | |
Fuel (fissile material) | U+Pu nitride, MOX, or metal |
Fuel state | Solid |
Neutron energy spectrum | Fast |
Primary coolant | Liquid sodium |
Reactor usage | |
Power (thermal) | 2100 MWth |
Power (electric) | 789 MWe net 885 MWe gross |