Large fast reactor approved for Beloyarsk

Russia has advanced plans for a fast reactor at the Beloyarsk.

Large fast reactor approved for Beloyarsk:

"The government of the Sverdlovsk region of Russia has approved the construction of the country's first BN-1200 fast reactor at the Beloyarsk nuclear power plant."

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The technical design of the BN-1200 is scheduled for completion by 2013, while the manufacture of equipment will start in 2014. Construction of the Beloyarsk unit is set to begin in 2015.

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Fast reactors offer the prospect of vastly more efficient use of uranium resources and the ability to burn actinides which are otherwise the long-lived component of high-level nuclear wastes.

The entire article can be read at the World Nuclear News site:
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