The ground-based version of the icebreaking nuclear reactor in the form of the RITM-200N installation will form the basis of the world's first low-power nuclear power plant (ASMM), which will be built in the Ust-Yansky region of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Today JSC "MSZ" (Machine-Building Plant - an enterprise of the Fuel Company of Rosatom "TVEL") announced the manufacture of a prototype nuclear fuel for the RITM-200N reactor and, in the future, for low-power NPPs.
In the future, small nuclear power plants will be built in places where large nuclear power plants are not needed, and electricity is not available at a price, and is not expected. The development of such power plants, including a modular approach, when the number of reactors on the site can gradually increase, fell into the development program of the Russian Federation. However, today small modular reactors are in vogue and are dreamed of in China, the Americas, Asia and Europe.
It is planned that the construction of a nuclear power plant in the Ust-Yansky district of the Republic of Sakha will be completed by 2028. The plant's capacity will be at least 55 MW. The service life of non-replaceable equipment will be 60 years. Manufacturing of fuel assemblies for it will begin in 2025, and manufacturing of the core is scheduled for 2026. Before being put into serial production, the experimental fuel cartridge will pass all the necessary pre-reactor tests, as well as the prototypes of the RITM-200N fuel.
Such reactors can bring the era of carbon-free power generation closer, which promises to attract interest from foreign customers.
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