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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Rosatom Solicits Bids for Pilot Nuclear Fuel Recycling Plant in Russia

Rosatom Solicits Bids for Pilot Nuclear Fuel Recycling Plant in Russia
 
Russia's state-owned power reactor company Rosatom is taking bids for an experimental $166 million plant to recycle fuel from its VVER-1000 reactors.

The pilot plant will be built at Rosatom's Federal State Unitary Enterprise Mining and Chemical Plant in Zheleznogorsk, about 150 miles southwest of Moscow. The contract covers construction of the first complex within the proposed facility, Russian news agency Interfax reported. The project will test recycling processes and draft recommendations while extracting uranium and plutonium from spent fuel. The pilot plant will have a capacity of 250 metric tons per year. Read More http://nuclearstreet.com/nuclear_power_industry_news/b/nuclear_power_news/archive/2013/02/19/rosatom-solicits-bids-for-pilot-nuclear-fuel-recycling-plant-in-russia-021901.aspx

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