Multifunctional radiochemical research facility to go online in Russia in 2018

A multifunctional radiochemical research facility is being built in Dimitrovgrad for the sake of working out new technologies for the nuclear power engineering industry of the future. The relevant information was released by the Atomic Reactors Research Institute of the Russian state corporation Rosatom. The future research facility will be based at premises of the Institute, BelTA has learned.

“It is an important project for Rosatom. In essence the Atomic Reactors Research Institute will get a radiochemical complex, which equipment will be unparalleled in the world. It will be used to test parts of the technology for processing nuclear fuel of fast reactors and for closing the nuclear fuel cycle. The accomplishment of these goals is expected to advance the Russian nuclear power engineering industry to a brand new level in several areas at once,” the Institute’s Director Sergei Pavlov was quoted as saying.

The statement reads that the use of more advanced technologies to process spent nuclear fuel will allow greatly increasing the raw materials base of the nuclear energy industry and will essentially reduce the volume of spent nuclear fuel in cold storage.

The construction of the multifunctional radiochemical research facility is scheduled for completion in late 2016. Once it is built, the installation of equipment will start. The facility is supposed to be commissioned in 2018. The year 2017 will be used for the startup and adjustment of the unique equipment.

The total cost of the facility is estimated at RUB5.7 billion, including RUB1.67 billion to be spent on building the facility.

Photo RIA Novosti