Nuclear icebreaker Sibir in Dudinka port on Yenisey river. 14% of global nickel production goes through this port.
#Icebreaker
ZiO-Podolsk begins welding of 4 hydro chambers to RITM-200 reactor vessel for nuclear icebreaker Yakutia. The chambers house main circulation pumps and are the only primary equipment sticking out of the vessel.
#ZiOPodolsk #RITM
Nuclear icebreaker Yamal has escorted a module of LNG plant travelling from China to Murmansk along the Northern Sea Route. Yamal picked Audax vessel in Bering Sea and escorted it to Barents Sea north of Novaya Zemlya.
#Icebreaker
Andreev Bay. Reservoirs 2A,2B,3A were hastily rebuilt into dry storage and filled with naval spent fuel in 80's. Nowadays fuel from 2A,2B is being removed and sent to Mayak for reprocessing.
The video shows testing of equipment to access 3A.
Full: youtu.be/TDl-ilTOwwM
Site of Leningrad 2-3 and 2-4. Start of groundworks is planned for this year.
#Leningrad #VVER
ZiO-Podolsk starts manufacture of RITM-400 reactor vessel. RITM-400 is a 315 MWt small modular reactor for nextgen nuclear icebreakers and other applications.
#ZiOPodolsk #RITM
Syndrome of Atom retweeted
We have begun welding the upper semi-vessel of the VVER-1200 reactor for the Chinese Tianwan NPP Unit 7. It is the key milestone in manufacturing of the reactor. The upper semi-vessel has been put together from two shells and a flange- total mass of the construction is 180 tons
Nuclear icebreaker Arktika in Pevek to pick the last two cargo ships, marking the end of navigation season.
#Pevek #Icebreaker
Each green container has a single MOX fuel assembly inside. All those containers will be shipped to Beloyarsk NPP in a few months and loaded into BN-800 during the next refueling outage.
teapawt.net/Syndroma3/status/12293…
MOX fuel at GHK. Those green containers have pretty thick walls.
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