AKME-Engineering, a joint stock company set up by Rosatom in 2009 to develop and commercialise the SVBR-100 reactor, has agreed to lease of 15-hectare plot of land adjacent to the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors' (RIAR's) site in Dimitrovgrad.
AKME-Engineering received a license in May 2013 to provide construction services for nuclear power plants. The first 100 MW SVBR-100 pilot unit is scheduled to start up in late 2018. The SVBR-100 is an integral reactor design, in which all the primary circuit (the reactor core itself as well as steam generators and associated equipment such as main circulating pumps) sits inside a pool of lead-bismuth coolant in a single vessel. The factory-built module could be shipped by rail, road or water to its destination where it could be used to supply heat, industrial steam and water desalination as well as electricity. Several modules could be co-located to provide a larger power station. The reactor concept has already been used on seven Russian Alfa-class nuclear submarines as well as in experimental installations on land.
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