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Lead-bismuth cooled fast reactor for regional power generation

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A condition for adopting low-capacity nuclear power plants in regional power generation is that they be competitive with thermal power plants. However, it is much more difficult to make low-capacity plants competitive than the power-generating units of high-capacity nuclear power plants, because as the capacity of a power source decreases the specific capital investments and power generation costs increase much more rapidly. It is shown that the innovative nuclear power technology of lead-bismuth cooled fast reactors, such as SVBR, based on the experience gained in operating nuclear submarines with chemically inert lead-bismuth coolant, which does not require high pressure in the first loop, satisfies all requirements for low-capacity nuclear power plants for regional power generation.

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  1. State Science Center of the Russian Federation – Leipunskii Institute for Physics and Power Engineering (GNTs RF – FEI), State Science Center of the Russian Federation – Leipunskii Institute for Physics and Power Engineering (GNTs RF – FEI), Obninsk, Russia

    G. I. Toshinskii, O. G. Komlev, P. N. Martynov & A. E. Rusanov

  2. Gidropress Experimental Design Bureau (OKB Gidropress) Podolsk, Gidropress Experimental Design Bureau (OKB Gidropress) Podolsk, Moscow Oblast, Russia

    V. S. Stepanov, N. N. Klimov, A. V. Dedul & S. N. Bolvanchikov

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  1. G. I. Toshinskii
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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 111, No. 5, pp. 290–293, November, 2011.

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Toshinskii, G.I., Komlev, O.G., Martynov, P.N. et al. Lead-bismuth cooled fast reactor for regional power generation. At Energy 111, 361–365 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-012-9504-y

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