The Russian government has approved a decree indicating that Russia aimed at building 11 new nuclear reactors by 2030, on top of those already under construction (namely Kaliningrad, Leningrad, Novovoronezh, Rostov and floating nuclear reactor Academician Lomonosov).
Among the 11 projects, two BN-1200 sodium-cooled fast neutron reactors (FBR) will be built at the Beloyarsk and South Urals nuclear power plants. The decree also approves the construction a seven VVER-TOI reactors at the Kola II, Smolensk II, Nizhny Novgorod, Kostroma and future Tatar nuclear plants and of a VVER-600 reactor for the Kola nuclear power plant by 2030. In addition, a BREST-OD-300 fast neutron reactor is expected to be built, as part of Russia's plans to develop a closed nuclear fuel cycle.
The decree also includes near-surface disposal facilities for radioactive waste of low- and intermediate-level nuclear waste, to be built at the Ural Electrochemical Integrated Plant (48,000 m3), at Mayak (100,000 m3) and at the Siberian Chemical Combine (200,000 m3). A 50,000 m3 sub-surface disposal facility for low- and intermediate-level waste should be built in Sosnovy Bor (Leningrad region), while deep burial disposal facilities will be developed in the Krasnoyarsk region.
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