Russian Nuclear Deals: News

The brain damaged chimps in Congress and the Senate and their puppet masters are totally deluded about the technological level
of the USA in the nuclear sector. Since they drink their piss-fermented propaganda koolaid about how America is number 1 in
everything they actually believe that America can do whatever it wants. Like build a nuclear power plant. This, of course,
is a total joke.

These clowns are trying to use sanctions and legislative blackmail to force countries around the world not to buy Russian nuclear
plants. The US thinks it owns the planet and that it can impose import restrictions into other countries. The same
BS it pulled in the early 1990s to block Japanese vector super-computers from competing fairly with Cray and which gave us
the scalar parallel garbage that never quite lived up to its claims. The US is also applying its extra-territorial protectionism
to the EU and oil and gas imports from Russia.

Viktor wrote:And what have they been doing up to this point.

So they where competing in a not serious manner and instead they will become serious?

They will compete in Artic in nuclear technology in hypersonic in oil and gas in geopolitics ... I only see they are loosing and from totem reinstating claims we are the

greatest nation on earth should instead scream we have the biggest debt on planet and turn off that ego.

The funny thing is how they want to ban the import of MOX from Russia. These retards don't even know that America cannot produce
MOX. It was never a charity for Russia, it was because Carter banned fuel reprocessing in the USA in the late 1970s. That is over 40
years ago. During this time the USA never developed any capacity for fuel reprocessing and lost any human capital to run such operations.
It's not as if there are moth-balled facilities that can be operated by burger flippers. They have neither the physical plant nor the workers.

Nuclear fuel reprocessing is not some trivial activity. It is complex and involves phyrochemistry innovation. France has MOX production
capability but Russia is number one in the world (for real, not some vapid US style masturbation) in this field.

https://www.nti.org/gsn/article/us-sees-pyroprocessing-as-nuclear-fuel-reprocessing-official/

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-nukes-plutonium-specialreport/americas-nuclear-headache-old-plutonium-with-nowhere-to-go-idUSKBN1HR1KC

https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/russias-decommissioned-nuclear-bombs-provide-10-of-us-electricity

I thought nuclear energy is not green enough for millennials?

They dont have a fast breeder reactor, they dont have Gen3+ reactors for crying out loud.

miketheterrible wrote:They dont have a fast breeder reactor, they dont have Gen3+ reactors for crying out loud.

Westinghouse built a Gen3+ (AP1000) reactor in China. But the coolant pump failed. Westinghouse went bankrupt because
it couldn't handle real world construction demands in spite of its AP1000 model. The only reason China is able to deploy
the AP1000 is because of its own skilled workforce.

An MIT report on the state of the US nuclear power industry, one of the few truthful assessments, identifies the reasons for
its failure. In particular the loss of qualified personnel due to a 40 year gap in reactor construction. I posted the link in
another thread a while ago.

kvs wrote:

miketheterrible wrote:They dont have a fast breeder reactor, they dont have Gen3+ reactors for crying out loud.

Westinghouse built a Gen3+ (AP1000) reactor in China.   But the coolant pump failed.   Westinghouse went bankrupt because
it couldn't handle real world construction demands in spite of its AP1000 model.   The only reason China is able to deploy
the AP1000 is because of its own skilled workforce.    

An MIT report on the state of the US nuclear power industry, one of the few truthful assessments, identifies the reasons for
its failure.  In particular the loss of qualified personnel due to a 40 year gap in reactor construction.    I posted the link in
another thread a while ago.  

It should be noted that building a new reactor takes a decade to complete, that's assuming they have an established design without flaws, and for them to train a new generation of young nuclear physicists your talking about  another 20-25 years. By the time their ready to 'compete' with Rosatom, the gap would of widened to 65 years!

Putin offered the world in 2006 to transition to nuclear power to get off the oil crack. He proposed six fuel reprocessing
centers that would be under IAEA control that would disburse fuel to reactors in countries such as Iran and take back
their "waste" for reprocessing. Bush appeared to like it but wanted one of the centers in the USA (for obvious reasons).
But Putin's proposal was torpedoed and we are stuck in the fossil fuel dead end.

I suspect that the oil lobby exerted its influence once again on western regimes. The oil majors are self-anointed masters
of the universe. For example, Exxon is the prime financier of global warming denial (to the tune of hundreds of millions of
dollars spent on shills and rotten journalists). GM did the oil companies major favours in the middle of the last century by
buying out and closing all the electric urban rail (tramway) systems to replace them with diesel buses. Even though the
oil age is clearly in decline due to resource decline, these transnationals refuse to adapt and pretend they can engage
in business as usual forever.

Another reason why Putin's proposal did not fly in the precious west is anti-nuclear paranoia and psychosis. Western
sheeple are seriously f*cked up in the head when it comes to nuclear power. For example, France's Superphenix
program was sabotaged by outright terrorism, mass protests and the French Green Party. Even though this was
a viable fast neutron breeder reactor program that would have consumed so-called nuclear waste.

kvs wrote:

Putin offered the world in 2006 to transition to nuclear power to get off the oil crack.   He proposed six fuel reprocessing
centers that would be under IAEA control that would disburse fuel to reactors in countries such as Iran and take back
their "waste" for reprocessing.   Bush appeared to like it but wanted one of the centers in the USA (for obvious reasons).
But Putin's proposal was torpedoed and we are stuck in the fossil fuel dead end.

I suspect that the oil lobby exerted its influence once again on western regimes.    The oil majors are self-anointed masters
of the universe.   For example, Exxon is the prime financier of global warming denial (to the tune of hundreds of millions of
dollars spent on shills and rotten journalists).    GM did the oil companies major favours in the middle of the last century by
buying out and closing all the electric urban rail (tramway) systems to replace them with diesel buses.    Even though the
oil age is clearly in decline due to resource decline, these transnationals refuse to adapt and pretend they can engage
in business as usual forever.  

Another reason why Putin's proposal did not fly in the precious west is anti-nuclear paranoia and psychosis.   Western
sheeple are seriously f*cked up in the head when it comes to nuclear power.   For example, France's Superphenix
program was sabotaged by outright terrorism, mass protests and the French Green Party.   Even though this was
a viable fast neutron breeder reactor program that would have consumed so-called nuclear waste.  

Agree complete! Go green means go nuclear!

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Russian-Nuclear-Giant-Rosatom-Eyes-10-Of-Lithium-Market-By-2030.html

Russian Nuclear Giant Rosatom Eyes 10% Of Lithium Market By 2030

Uranium One, a unit of Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy firm Rosatom, plans to begin producing lithium by 2023, targeting between 9% and 10% of the global market by 2030.

“We are considering the acquisition of raw material assets overseas to integrate into global supply chains for final products such as batteries with localized production in Russia,” Sergey Polgorodnik, general director of Joint Stock Co. TENEX, told a weekly in-house news publication.

Uranium One has been actively looking for lithium assets in the past year. In October, it inked a memorandum of understanding with Canada’s Wealth Minerals about acquiring up to a 51% interest in the company’s Atacama lithium project in northern Chile.

The asset covers a 46,200-hectare license in one of the world’s highest grade and largest sources of the white metal, which has become an irreplaceable component of rechargeable batteries used in high tech devices and electric vehicles (EVs).

Chile’s Atacama salt flat, home to leading lithium producers Albemarle and SQM, accounts for around one-third the world’s supply of the battery metal.

In December 2019, Uranium One began talks with Australia’s Prospect Resources (ASX:PSC) to buy a stake of the company’s Arcadia lithium mine in Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe has been pushing lithium as a major draw for investors as it looks to supply 10% of the world’s needs by 2022. The country is currently the fifth-largest global producer of the white metal.

Incredible news for the global nuclear community - Unit 1 of the Belarusian NPP, equipped with a VVER-1200 reactor based on Russian technology, has been connected to the grid!

https://twitter.com/RosatomGlobal/status/1323580827377258507

magnumcromagnon wrote:

Incredible news for the global nuclear community - Unit 1 of the Belarusian NPP, equipped with a VVER-1200 reactor based on Russian technology, has been connected to the grid!

https://twitter.com/RosatomGlobal/status/1323580827377258507

Lukass-hanko almost torpedoed this project with his pandering to NATzO. This clown and his maggot ridden regime needs to go.

Interesting application, the use of these exoskeleton platforms outside of the military will add to the greater feasibility of exoskeletons as a whole. Now it's high-time we see them in use for physical therapy and medical rehabilitation.

SPECIALISTS OF THE ROSATOM ENGINEERING DIVISION TESTED INDUSTRIAL EXOSKELETONS UNDER CONSTRUCTION CONDITIONS


The tests were carried out by employees of the Representative Office of the Republic of Bashkortostan PJSC "Energospecmontazh" (an enterprise of the Engineering Division, specializing in heat installation works) in the pre-assembly shopat the site of the Belarusian NPP in the presence of specialists from the Technology Transfer Center of JSC ASE EC. The exoskeletons were provided by the Russian company RT-Trusted Platforms of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The tests were carried out within the framework of the divisional program of technical re-equipment of the heating installation industry "TEPLOTECH 4.0". Two types of exoskeletons were tested in real production conditions. The first is designed to make it easier for welders and fitters to work in awkward positions. It also makes it easy to carry loads of up to 30 kilograms. The construction of the second type is designed to relieve the knee joints and fix the installer in a sitting and semi-sitting position. The tests were carried out while working on drilling and band sawing machines, the operators of which are forced to stand still for a long time. “We have received positive feedback even from those who were initially skeptical about the use of exoskeletons. According to our preliminary estimates, the use of exoskeletons will increase labor productivity by up to 60%, reduce the risk of injury, and ease the working conditions of workers. Based on the test results, protocols were drawn up, in which the positive qualities of these products were noted and comments were made for finalizing the design, "says Denis Kalinin, head of the production system development department of Energospecmontazh PJSC. It is planned that by the end of 2020 the exoskeleton developer will finalize and certify its products. After that, Energospecmontazh, PJSC will lease several sets of exokeletons for long-term tests at the Rooppur NPP construction site (Bangladesh). Rosatom

SPECIALISTS OF THE ROSATOM ENGINEERING DIVISION TESTED INDUSTRIAL EXOSKELETONS UNDER CONSTRUCTION CONDITIONS

For the end of the year a last update from the russian export nuclear reactor at Kudankulam Unit-3, India from me. Good progress and next year, construction of Unit-5 and 6 will start, both Made in Russia VVER-1000/412M reactors. Good slide in the new year at all! ~DE

Putin, Erdogan Announce Launch of Construction of Power Unit 3 of Akkuyu NPP in Turkey
10.03.2021

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Akkuyu NPP is Turkey's first-ever nuclear power plant. It will have four nuclear units equipped with Russian-designed generation 3+ VVER reactors with the capacity of 1200 megawatt each. Rosatom oversees the construction of the NPP.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Wednesday announced the start of the construction of Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant’s energy unit 3 in Turkey’s Mersin province.

They pressed symbolic red buttons symbolising the start of the construction in Turkey. The event was held via a video format.

According to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the construction of the fourth power unit of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant will begin in 2022.

"Today we are experiencing a day of pride together, we are starting to build the third power unit. Next year, we will start building the fourth. This is an important step from the point of our energy security. I hope the nuclear power plant will give us cheap and reliable energy. As many as 186 students have already successfully studied and returned to Turkey. Akkuyu NPP will give a new impetus to the development of our economy", Erdogan said, speaking via videoconference at the launch ceremony of the third power unit construction.

Putin and Erdogan Agree to Meet

Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in person, adding that they have not seen each other for a long time and this must be done "in the near future."

"Turkey intends to continue cooperation with Russia on major regional problems such as Syria, Libya, Karabakh. I hope we will be able to meet in person soon," Erdogan said, addressing Putin via video link.

"Agreed. We haven't seen each other for a long time, we need to do this in the near future," Putin replied.

The successful implementation of the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Turkey will bring Ankara-Moscow energy cooperation to a new level, Putin added.

"The flagship project will not only bring bilateral cooperation in the energy sector to a qualitatively new level, but, in general, will further promote the multi-field Russian-Turkish partnership, strengthen friendship and mutual understanding between the people of our countries", Putin said.

The Russian president also said that joint Russian-Turkish efforts made the construction of the Akkuyu NPP in accordance with the agreed schedule possible despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

"Even the well-known difficulties related to the coronavirus pandemic could not prevent the consistent implementation of the Akkuyu project", Putin said.

Russia and Turkey agreed in 2010 that a Rosatom subsidiary will build the nuclear plant. The third reactor was granted construction authorisation in November.

There are plans to build a total of four reactors with a combined generating capacity of 4,800 megawatt.

https://sputniknews.com/world/202103101082307965-putin-erdogan-announce-launch-of-construction-of-power-unit-3-of-akkuyu-npp-in-turkey/

Foreign megaprojects: Russia will build the country's first nuclear power plant for Egypt
Today

In 1971, the grand opening of the Aswan Hydraulic Engineering Complex took place in Egypt. The object was built for about ten years with the direct participation of the USSR. At one time, the hydroelectric power station provided about half of the total amount of electricity generated in the country.

Today there are about 20 power plants in the Arab Republic of Egypt (APE); the most powerful ones were put into operation in different cities in 2018 - three TPPs of 4.8 GW each. Soon the first nuclear power plant of similar capacity will appear in the country. The project will be implemented in the city of El-Dabaa by Rosatom, which the parties agreed on in November 2015,by signing an intergovernmental agreement. This joint event will be the largest since the Aswan Dam.

A record deal in the history of the global nuclear industry

Russia and Egypt signed an agreement on cooperation in the peaceful use of atomic energy in 2008, and two years later Cairo announced plans to build a nuclear power plant 3.5 km from the Mediterranean Sea. Then it was reported that the first block of the future station could be launched by 2019. It is worth noting that the issue of building such a facility has been discussed by Cairo and Moscow since the 1950s.

Exploration work was completed by the beginning of winter 2017, and in the same year, in the presence of the heads of both states, documents were signed on the entry into force of contracts for the construction of four power units. To implement this plan, about $ 30 billion is needed, and 25 of them will be provided by the Russian side in the form of a loan for a period of 13 years at 3% per annum.

Egypt will repay the borrowed funds after the construction is completed. President of the Arab Republic Abdel Fattah al-Sisi stressed that the new nuclear power plant will become the most reliable in the world. About 50% of the equipment will be manufactured in Russia.

The agreement implies not only the construction of four modern power units with VVER-1200 reactors, but also service and fuel maintenance for a period of 60 years. Thus, the total amount of contracts amounted to $ 60 billion, which, asnoted , makes the deal the most expensive in the history of the global nuclear industry.

Moreover, Rosatom promotes the training of qualified personnel to work at the future plant. In particular, several Egyptians were sent to study nuclear power at Tomsk Polytechnic University, where the first group of students defended their theses in 2020.

Circumstances intervened

It was assumed that the Russian company would begin the actual implementation of the project in the next two years, immediately after obtaining the necessary permits. And the last fourth power unit will be commissioned by 2028. In 2018, disagreements arose regarding the construction site. Rosatom was not satisfied with the option proposed by the Egyptian Nuclear Power Plant Authority, namely the strength of the soil at the site.

The head of the Russian state company Alexei Likhachev in the same year said that after the elimination of some remarks, it is expected to obtain permission for a number of preparatory work - digging a foundation pit, construction of access roads necessary for the construction. And after the license is issued, approximately in 2020, the foundation will be poured.

The construction site was officially approved in April 2019. Six months later, the Egyptian president invited his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to the ceremony of laying the first stone, expressing the hope that all issues on the project will be finally resolved in the very near future. The ceremony was planned to be held in mid-2020, but due to the pandemic, plans had to be revised. Nevertheless, it was announced in the summer that construction would begin before the end of the year, but a little later it became known that the Russian company would be able to obtain a license for the construction of the first block only in 2021.

In the last week of last year, the head of Rosatom met in Cairo with the President of Egypt. Following the negotiations, the work schedule was adjusted. The preparatory stage is still ongoing, which has been a little protracted for a number of reasons, the main of which is called a pandemic. According to the latest information, they should start pouring the foundation as soon as possible.

It is planned to involve a number of Egyptian companies in the project. In December, Rosatom held a special webinar for potential contractors. In total, up to 13 thousand people will be involved in the facility at the same time.

The future nuclear power plant, as the Egyptian authorities have repeatedly noted, is of great importance for the country. Preparations began for the construction of the first nuclear power plant on the land of the pharaohs more than half a century ago. Various factors prevented the acceleration of the process - the refusal to ratify the agreement on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the global financial crisis, and an internal political crisis.

https://zen.yandex.ru/media/str_rus/zarubejnye-megaproekty-rossiia-postroit-dlia-egipta-pervuiu-v-strane-aes-6048dd4a3949137c742869f4

Russia's Rosatom signs a deal for the supply of isotopes to Brazil.

https://mundo.sputniknews.com/20210609/la-rusa-rosatom-firma-un-contrato-para-suministros-de-isotopos-a-brasil-1113077783.html

Valdai club proposes a proposes a nuclear powers dialogue between US, Russia, China and India.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/we-need-to-talk-for-a-four-way-dialogue-between-ru/

I feel until and unless India can achieve nuclear parity with China, China will not take India seriously and will continue its nuclear blackmail tactics along with Pakistan.

Sujoy wrote:Valdai club proposes a proposes a nuclear powers dialogue between US, Russia, China and India.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/we-need-to-talk-for-a-four-way-dialogue-between-ru/

I feel until and unless India can achieve nuclear parity with China, China will not take India seriously and will continue its nuclear blackmail tactics along with Pakistan.

Don't know the details about China/India conflict but if you can you should definitely increase your nuclear arsenal

You already got the first one long ago which was the hard part, after that nobody will be giving you shit, it's always the first one that results in political pressure, others are easy

PapaDragon wrote:Don't know the details about China/India conflict but if you can you should definitely increase your nuclear arsenal

You already got the first one long ago which was the hard part, after that nobody will be giving you shit, it's always the first one that results in political pressure, others are easy

They can't. To create a large nuclear force you need access to uranium and plutonium. India doesn't have enough reserves of uranium and plutonium and imports.

The technology behind nuclear weapons is more than 75 years old unless you are considering MIRVs. So developing a nuclear device ain't difficult. What is difficult however is access to fissile materials.
Soviet Union had access to huge uranium reserves in Central Asia.

Since India neither has large uranium, plutonium reserves nor will be allowed by the U.S to import fissile materials in large quantities from a foreign country they can't create a large nuclear arsenal.

Sujoy wrote:Valdai club proposes a proposes a nuclear powers dialogue between US, Russia, China and India.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/we-need-to-talk-for-a-four-way-dialogue-between-ru/

I feel until and unless India can achieve nuclear parity with China, China will not take India seriously and will continue its nuclear blackmail tactics along with Pakistan.

The best policy for India is to follow real independence. This means no falling into the orbit of the yanquis. Naturally, it also means
not falling into anybody's else's orbit. The future should about trade and not warring blocs. It appears that China is ready to follow
this line as opposed to the western colonial model.

PapaDragon wrote: Don't know the details about China/India conflict but if you can you should definitely increase your nuclear arsenal

China invaded and occupied Tibet in the 50s and established a border with India. Now they are trying to move the border further south by occupying several Indian states.

PapaDragon wrote:You already got the first one long ago which was the hard part, after that nobody will be giving you shit, it's always the first one that results in political pressure, others are easy

That's correct. However, Anglo-Saxon countries are inherently anti India. Moreover with a pro Arab/Muslim anti India U.S President in office they will move heaven and earth to block uranium, plutonium exports to India.

Sujoy wrote:China invaded and occupied Tibet in the 50s and established a border with India. Now they are trying to move the border further south by occupying several Indian states.

BS

The Chinese lost control of Tibet with the collapse of the Qing dynasty and the dismemberment of China into regions of foreign administration.  It was always a given that once foreign influence was thrown out (and the civil war resolved) that the new central government would reassert its control over errant provinces.

If the KMT had beaten the Commies and Chiang Kai-shek had ordered his troops into Llhasa instead of Mao, there is zero chance that the West (or India) would be complaining about an "invasion".  The foreign nations dividing China never considered Tibet to be an independent kingdom even when the Chinese were at their weakest, so the crocodile tears they shed with monotonous regularity are fake in the extreme.