Development Projects of Russia: Industry, Energy and Infastructure

224 NEW PLANTS ARE BEING BUILT IN RUSSIA RIGHT NOW

miketheterrible wrote:Dunno what things are like in the land of Ontario KVS, but here in Alberta, construction companies seem to overcharge and underperforme in vast amounts

Just come and see the highways and the building of overpasses.  Takes a near decade to do and way over budget.

Russian nuclear fuel manufacturer TVEL has announced the start of construction of a 300 MW nuclear power unit enabled with the innovative BREST-OD-300 lead-cooled fast reactor at the site of the Siberian Chemical Combine, in Seversk. The reactor will run on mixed uranium-plutonium nitride (MNUP) fuel, specially developed for this facility as the "optimal solution" for fast reactors.

TVEL said that, for the first time in history, a nuclear power plant powered by a fast reactor will be built alongside closed nuclear fuel cycle servicing enterprises on one site. It will be an integral part of the Pilot Demonstration Energy Complex (PDEC) - a cluster of three interconnected facilities, including the nuclear fuel production plant (for fabrication and re-fabrication), the BREST-OD-300 power unit, and the facility for irradiated fuel reprocessing.

After reprocessing, the irradiated fuel from the reactor will be sent for re-fabrication, thereby giving this system the means to become "practically autonomous and independent of external resources supplies", said TVEL, which is a subsidiary of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom. PDEC is part of of Rosatom’s Proryv, or Breakthough, project that aims to close the nuclear fuel cycle.

"The nuclear power industry’s resource base will practically become inexhaustible thanks to the infinite reprocessing of nuclear fuel. At the same time, future generations will be spared the problem of accumulating spent nuclear fuel," Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachov said in the TVEL statement.

TVEL President Natalia Nikipelova added that the Breakthrough project concerns not merely the development of innovative reactors, but also the introduction of a new generation of nuclear fuel cycle technologies. Production of dense nitride MNUP fuel will ensure the efficient operation of a lead-cooled fast reactor and consist entirely of recycled nuclear materials such as plutonium and depleted uranium, she said. This means more efficient and economically attractive radiochemical technologies for the processing of irradiated fuel and waste management, she added.

"Taken together, they will make the nuclear power of the future in fact renewable with a practically waste-free production chain," she said.

A fuel production facility and an irradiated fuel reprocessing module are scheduled to be built by 2023 and 2024, respectively, while the BREST-OD-300 reactor is expected to start operation in 2026.

TVEL says the BREST-OD-300 reactor will provide itself with its main energy component - plutonium-239 - by reproducing it from the isotope uranium-238.

[1]Upgrade and expansion of Russia's railway network in the east - planned by 2024 (>$10 Billion). This will facilitate not just exporting coal, but significantly stimulate economic activity in eastern Russia and greatly increase trade route capacity from countries like China, Japan, South Korea etc. to markets in the West. It also will head off China's Belt and Road project dominating over-land cargo trade

[2]Vostok Oil project - production to start 2025 (approx. $150 billion)

[3]Development of Russia's petrochemicals industry. Amur Gas chemical complex recently launched (expected to reach its full capacity in 2025). Further plants being constructed at Ust-Luga, Irkutsk and of course Yamal

[4]Further expansion and completion of LNG production plants at Arctic II, Sakhalin and Ust-Luga

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https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Russia-starts-building-lead-cooled-fast-reactor

TVEL says the BREST-OD-300 reactor will provide itself with its main energy component - plutonium-239 - by reproducing it from the isotope uranium-238.

Quite unnoticed news, which are actually very important for the future. Russia start building its new generation nuclear reactor BREST-OD-300 near Tomsk. It work on technology of fast neutrons and use lead for medium instead of water. It is breeder reactor and work in closed fuel cycle, in other words it produce its own fuel.

The urgent timeline was the other
major factor and the only way do accelerate the project was to throw a lot of workers at it. So the decision was made to use prison labour
to build the canal. Of course this put money and time over human life, but that is the historical norm and remains true today. Painting it
as unique Soviet sadism is just revisionist propaganda.

The canal upgrade will be part of a larger project linking is part of the Russian north to Siberia. The scale of this project is huge and it
will not happen tomorrow. Things should be coming together during the 2030s.

PapaDragon wrote:


That's right, Rosatom is into renewables, smart move plus government cares not where energy comes from as long as it keeps coming    

Nomad5891 wrote:
I can hardly say this is a smart move. Germany was pioneering all this green idiocity and in the end they had to turn back on their coal power plants as this green stuff surprisingly was supplying power only when it was windy or only during the day. You can not build an industry arround such limited and unstable power supply.
However billions of grants were absorbed by the right people.
Happened in Spain too and basically in the whole EU. Solar was profitable as long as governments were buying the generated power on artificially high prices. Once these programs stopped most solar farms went bancrupt.
Sad to see Russia is going the same way.
BTW those wind generators are not home made. Rosatom feeding the Netherlands based Lagerwey company. Cool. Smart! Master 4d chess moves!

ALAMO wrote:

Nomad5891 wrote:
I can hardly say this is a smart move. Germany was pioneering all this green idiocity and in the end they had to turn back on their coal power plants as this green stuff surprisingly was supplying power only when it was windy or only during the day. You can not build an industry arround such limited and unstable power supply.
However billions of grants were absorbed by the right people.
Happened in Spain too and basically in the whole EU. Solar was profitable as long as governments were buying the generated power on artificially high prices. Once these programs stopped most solar farms went bancrupt.
Sad to see Russia is going the same way.
BTW those wind generators are not home made. Rosatom feeding the Netherlands based Lagerwey company. Cool. Smart! Master 4d chess moves!

To be honest, the general beneficence of wind parks in the EU is connected to the green certificates and emission rights only, and runs only as long, as there is someone who would buy those.
With a system where all energy is green, the entire construction would collapse.
The craziest thing I saw in this business back in 2007 or so, was a fact that turbine producers owned the financial institutions who could - potentially - finance the investment. This is like closing a fox in the henhouse.
Has nothing in common with a free market and transparent business.
I saw several projects that used to show all the financial data and production estimations only to open a discussion for possible financial participation.
It all ended up in the turbine cost calculated to the project financial limits.
I am not sure if the situation was similar in other EU members, but what Dutch and Dunes were doing with this business here, was just like squeezing the lemon.
All the EU grants used to finance the entire business ended up back in the pockets of old EU members with overpriced contracts.