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Rosenergoatom and Ural Federal University Jointly Establish a Fast Reactor Talent Training Center

Rosenergoatom, the power division of Rosatom, and Yeltsin Ural Federal University (UrFU) have recently jointly established a Fast Neutron Reactor Talent Training Center. The center will unify and coordinate eight educational tracks across the Ural Power Engineering Institute, the Institute of Physics and Technology, and the Institute of Chemical Technology, with Oleg Tashlykov, professor of the Department of Nuclear Power Plants and Renewable Energy Sources at Ural Federal University, serving as its head. The core goal of establishing the center is to build a sound professional talent training system for fast neutron reactor nuclear power units, with the primary task being to supply operational and engineering backbone personnel for the planned BN-1200M unit at the Beloyarsk NPP...

2026-10-12

Large-Scale Nuclear Emergency Exercise Held at Russia's Beloyarsk NPP: Simulating Response to Concurrent Dual-Reactor Accident

The Beloyarsk NPP in Russia's Sverdlovsk Region launched a two-day comprehensive nuclear emergency exercise on October 6, 2026. The exercise is based on a hypothetical scenario of a natural disaster compounded by a reactor safety system failure, with a focus on emergency response and cross-departmental coordinated handling capabilities when two nuclear reactors experience severe accidents simultaneously. The exercise is being conducted simultaneously at the Beloyarsk NPP site and the neighboring city of Zarechny, and is the largest annual comprehensive nuclear emergency drill in the Russian nuclear industry system and the Ural Federal District. Beloy...

2026-10-08

Unit 3 of Beloyarsk NPP begins scheduled maintenance and equipment modernization

Unit 3 of Russia's Beloyarsk NPP entered scheduled preventive maintenance on August 18. This outage maintenance will be used for fuel reloading, equipment maintenance, and preventive repairs, along with partial modernization efforts to maintain reliable unit operation and improve equipment performance. The unit features a BN-600 sodium-cooled fast neutron reactor. During the maintenance period, the plant will carry out major repairs on the BN-600 reactor facility and replace 9 guide tubes in the control and protection system. Such operations are uncommon and are typically performed approximately once every 10 years. According to the maintenance schedule, the plant will also repair the unloading lift device and conduct operational monitoring inspections of the reactor pressure vessel metal...

2026-08-19