Rosatom to offer small-scale, medium-scale nuclear power supply solutions

The Russian state corporation Rosatom is starting the implementation of the program to develop small-scale and medium-scale nuclear energy industry in Russia, Russian mass media quoted Rosatom’s Deputy Director General Vyacheslav Pershukov as saying.

BelTA has learned that regions with poorly developed network infrastructure and remote areas to where fuel is difficult to deliver need nuclear power-generating units of small and medium capacity. Earlier Rosatom head Sergei Kiriyenko stated that the corporation intends to accelerate the work to create small and medium-capacity reactors that satisfy the demand for energy in the best way possible, including in third countries.

According to Vyacheslav Pershukov, the effort will represent a serious step for the Russian nuclear power engineering industry. They are now deciding which medium-capacity nuclear power-generating unit will be the first to be built in Russia. The choice is between the unit featuring a VVER-600 reactor developed by OKB Gidropress or the unit featuring a VBER-600 reactor made by Afrikantov OKBM. The first medium-capacity nuclear power-generating unit may be commissioned as part of the future second Kola nuclear power plant by 2025.