Rosatom presents RITM-200M reactor export power plant at the first international conference on IAEA small modular reactors
01 November 2024
As part of the business program of the conference that ended on 25 October 2024 in Vienna (Austria), representatives of the state corporation Rosatom shared their experience in developing and operating low-power nuclear power plants (LNP).
A. Kosilov
Aleksey Likhachev, General Director of the State Corporation Rosatom, addressed the conference participants online and talked about the advantages of SNPP in its land-based and water-based versions for supplying electricity to remote areas and individual industrial projects, as well as Rosatom's proposals in the field of small-scale nuclear energy. It should be noted that a project for the construction of a low-power land-based nuclear power plant in Yakutia (based on the RITM-200 reactor) is currently being implemented, and in May 2024, Rosatom signed the first export contract with Uzbekistan, providing for the construction of a nuclear power plant based on a Russian design.
At the discussion session “Innovative industrial participation: from design to production”, Rosatom representative Alexander Volgin presented the idea of Rosatom's integrated proposal for nuclear power plants. The speaker detailed the main components of the proposal such as workforce development, fuel supply and local industry involvement. He stressed the importance of having a reference project from the supplier and the benefits of mass deployment of ASMM.
Representatives of state-owned enterprises made a series of reports, in particular on the experience of designing onshore and offshore SNPPs, as well as developing nuclear infrastructure based on different contract models.
On the sidelines of the conference Rosatom Engineering Academy and IAEAAgreement on expanding cooperation in the field of knowledge management and human resource development.
As part of the special session of the Industrial Night of industrial enterprises, organized by the World Nuclear Association on the sidelines of the conference, a project of a floating power plant with a RITM-200M reactor in an export version was presented, which has a reduced size (compared to the operational FPU "Akademik Lomonosov") and an increased fuel life (up to 10 years).
Low-power nuclear power plants (LPNP) are one of the most promising areas of the nuclear industry; all key companies are working to create their own solutions based on small modular reactor technology. These solutions are focused on providing clean electricity and uninterrupted heat to remote island territories and supporting the development of promising areas. The Rosatom State Corporation has reference technologies for the construction of low-power stations, both on land and on land. Rosatom's low-power projects provide consumers with reliable electricity at predictable prices in the long term. This makes SNMM technology in demand among large industrial consumers who responsibly approach the choice of energy sources for their production facilities and territories of presence. Rosatom operates the world's only floating power plant, the Akademik Lomonosov, with two KLT-40 reactors. Currently, the state corporation is implementing a project to build four floating power units with RITM-200S reactors to supply electricity to mining enterprises, as well as a low-power onshore nuclear power plant in Yakutia, based on the RITM-200N. reactor. In May 2024, Rosatom signed the first export contract with Uzbekistan, providing for the construction of nuclear power plants of Russian design (six units with a total capacity of 330 MW).
