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The design features and construction status of the BN-800 reactor being built at the Beloyarskaya nuclear power plant and the main scientific and technical problems which will be solved with the construction of this reactor are examined. The most important ones are mastering a closed fuel cycle, checking new technical solutions, and testing improved fuel and construction materials. The directions for improving the technical-economic performance characteristics of fast reactors that the BN-800 and-1800 designs can provide are described. It is shown that economic performance indicators which are at least as good as those of VVÉR reactor with close power levels can be achieved.
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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 102, No. 1, pp. 21–26, January, 2007.
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Kostin, V.I., Vasil’ev, B.A. Problems of BN-800 construction and the possibilities of developing advanced fast reactors. At Energy 102, 19–24 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-007-0002-6
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